Tommy and Tuppence of Fate" they also have a small dog named Hannibal. In 1953 the BBC adapted "Partners in Crime" as a radio series starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim. The Tommy and Tuppence characters have been portrayed on television by James Warwick and Francesca Annis, first in the feature-length "The Secret Adversary" (1982), and then in the 10 episode series "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" (1983). The novel "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" was adapted in 2005 by the French director Pascal Thomas with the title "Mon petit doigt m'a dit...". The movie casts André Dussolier as Tommy (renamed Bélisaire)
Partners in Crime (short story collection) too easily. By having two detectives who are usually alternately successful she has always a foil, less obtuse than 'my dear Watson'. The "Daily Express" issue of 10 October 1929 gave the book a review of a couple of lines which concluded that the stories were "not quite up to her level, although they are entertaining enough". Robert Barnard described this as: "Tommy and Tuppence in a series of short stories which parody detective writers and their methods. Many of these are long forgotten, but the parodies are not sharp enough for this to matter very much. "The House of