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
Tuppence Middleton "Dickensian" (2015–16), playing Miss Havisham, and "War & Peace" (2016), in which she played Russian princess and villain Hélène Kuragina, and has been cast in the upcoming film adaptation "Downton Abbey". In 2010, she was nominated for the "London Evening Standard" Film Awards for Most Promising Newcomer. Tuppence Middleton was born on 21 February 1987 in Bristol, England, to Nigel and Tina Middleton. She was named "Tuppence" after the childhood nickname her grandmother gave to her mother. She was raised in Clevedon, Somerset, with older sister Angel and younger brother Josh (now frontman of heavy metal band Sylosis, and lead