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 written by the then current writer Peter Gross. In 2001 they received their own four-issue mini-series "Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives" by writer Ed Brubaker and penciller Bryan Talbot. They have also made appearances in the ongoing series "The Books of Magic", which was also based on a Neil Gaiman work. Jill Thompson briefly depicted the characters in her graphic novel "", which retold the events of "Season of Mists" from Death's perspective. In 2005, the writer/artist later produced a manga-style graphic novel starring the characters, titled "The Dead Boy Detectives". The pair returned in the "Vertigo Anthology" series, a