By the Pricking of My Thumbs By the Pricking of My Thumbs By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at twenty-one shillings (21/-) and the US edition at $4.95. It features her detectives Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Tommy and Tuppence were unusual in that they aged from novel to novel unlike Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, whose age remained more or less the same from Christie's
Recurring elements in the Final Fantasy series titles, although they remain unconnected in a narrative sense. A recurring animal in "Final Fantasy" is the Chocobo, a galliform bird that regularly acts as a means of transport for characters. The Chocobo was created by Ishii for "Final Fantasy II" from designs created during development of the first "Final Fantasy", and have appeared in every mainline "Final Fantasy" title since then. A second recurring race are the Moogles, whose Japanese name is "Mōguri", a portmanteau of the words "mogura" (mole) and "kōmori" (bat); while frequently seen minding stores or assuming some other background role, they have also appeared as