The Secret Adversary The Secret Adversary The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in January 1922 in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in that same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $1.75. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over,
Dead Boy Detectives spirit to return to death against its will. In the 2001 limited series "Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives" the two ghosts investigate the mystery of why and how numerous corpses of homeless children had begun washing up on the shores of the Thames. Dead Boy Detectives The Dead Boy Detectives are fictional characters that have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. They were created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III in "The Sandman" #25 (April, 1991). The characters are the ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine,