By the Pricking of My Thumbs By the Pricking of My Thumbs By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Tommy and Tuppence were unusual in that they aged from novel to novel unlike Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, whose age remained more or less the same from Christie's
Tommy Pickles most characters) expanded his wardrobe and began wearing many different outfits. He still keeps his screwdriver he had as a baby in his pocket. More recently, he had a keychain with a screwdriver on it. Tommy has been very well received, and is considered by some to be one of the greatest cartoon characters of all time. The "San Jose Mercury News" wrote in 1998 that "Tommy Pickles is a bigger star than George Clooney." Tommy Pickles Tommy Pickles is a fictional character that appears in the Nickelodeon animated television series "Rugrats" and its spin-off "All Grown Up!" as the