Tommy and Tuppence Tommy and Tuppence Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife Prudence (née Cowley). The first time Tommy and Tuppence appeared in a Christie novel was in "The Secret Adversary" (1922). They started out their career in a search of adventure and money, and the detecting life soon proved profitable and very exciting. Tommy and Tuppence appear together in four full-length novels and one collection of short stories The collection of short stories is "Partners in Crime", (1929, each story referencing another writer's work);
Detectives Inc. follow Will Eisner's influential "A Contract with God". The Gay League's "LBGT Comics Timeline" cites the book as "featuring the first lesbian characters in mass-market comics". The books' genesis, author Don McGregor recalled, had gone back several years. "I had created "Detectives Inc." as early as 1969, as roles for Alex Simmons and myself to play in Super8 millimeter movies I was making". In the early 1970s, the two produced a crude "Detectives Inc." comic book, self-published via photocopier. In 1980, Eclipse Enterprises published "Detectives Inc.: A Remembrance of Threatening Green", the first of what would become two graphic novels