Tommy and Tuppence Tommy and Tuppence Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives, recurring characters in the work of Agatha Christie. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and his wife Prudence (née Cowley). The first time Tommy and Tuppence appeared in a Christie novel was in "The Secret Adversary" (1922). They started out their career in a search of adventure and money, and the detecting life soon proved profitable and very exciting. Tommy and Tuppence appear together in four full-length novels and one collection of short stories The collection of short stories is "Partners in Crime", (1929, each story referencing another writer's work);
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