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);
Tommy Westphall was quoted as saying, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all [American] television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him." The "St. Elsewhere" characters Dr. Roxanne Turner (Alfre Woodard) and Dr. Victor Ehrlich (Ed Begley, Jr.) appeared on "". Fontana was the executive producer and showrunner for "Homicide" for its entire seven years. Proponents of the Tommy Westphall Universe argue that because of this fictional crossover, the two series exist within the same fictional universe, and within Tommy Westphall's mind because of the final episode of "St. Elsewhere"; by extension this hypothesis can