Partners in Crime is a collection of short stories that revolve around the same characters. The stories are different cases that the main characters try to solve. In all the stories you can tell that they are mimicking stories of some famous detectives, like Sherlock Holmes.
Based on some of the things the characters say in the story I believe that this story is set sometime after or during WWII because the characters talk about Bolsheviks and spies.
The book starts with a discussion between Tuppence and Tommy, who have been married for six years. Tuppence is not very happy with her life; she wants’ to have adventures and live unexpected things.
After their discussion Mr. Carter appears and tells the couple that he wants them to take over the International Detective Agency. They accept and hire Albert as their assistant.
After that first part of the book, the rest of the little stories are about the characters, their adventures and mysteries and the way they solve them.
In the last story of the book, at the end, Tuppence reveals to Tommy that she is going to have a baby and that she wants to stop being a detective.
I founded very interesting that in the first story when they talk about the fairy in the photograph and they refer to Conan Doyle; because in the 1920 there were some pictures of some girls in their garden with some fairies and Conan Doyle believed that this pictures were true and he wrote an article and a book were he wrote some theories about what happened.
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