Partners in Crime (UK TV series) commissioned by Ben Stephenson and Charlotte Moore for the BBC to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth. The adaptation was produced by Endor Productions in partnership with Agatha Christie Productions. David Walliams and Hilary Strong (Agatha Christie Group) approached Hilary Bevan Jones and Tom Nash (development producer) of Endor Productions with the idea of re-inventing the Agatha Christie characters Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Walliams liked the idea of a married amateur detective duo bickering over a dead body. Agatha Christie wrote stories featuring the Beresfords between 1922 and 1973, depicting Tommy and Tuppence from before they were married
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