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 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