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)
Dead Boy Detectives meet for the first time. The story and characters are clearly a macabre spin on two genres of British children's fiction - boarding school literature and teenage detective stories. Gaiman revived the characters in the "Children's Crusade" Vertigo's first and only crossover event which ran through all that year's Vertigo annuals that were published between December 1993 and January 1994. Gaiman wrote the two "Children's Crusade" bookend annuals which prominently featured both characters and first gave them the official title the "Dead Boy Detectives". The characters also appeared in a "The Books of Magic" short story in "Winter's Edge #3",