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The Affair of the Pink Pearl: A Tommy & Tuppence Short Story
The Affair of the Pink Pearl: A Tommy & Tuppence Short Story
The Affair of the Pink Pearl: A Tommy & Tuppence Short Story
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The Affair of the Pink Pearl: A Tommy & Tuppence Short Story

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Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance.

Their first case is a success—the triumphant recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow—a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates. But can they live up to their slogan of "Any case solved in 24 hours"?

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateMay 8, 2012
ISBN9780062211033
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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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    The Affair of the Pink Pearl - Agatha Christie

    The Affair of the Pink Pearl

    A Tommy & Tuppence Short Story

    by Agatha Christie

    An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

    Contents

    Cover

    Title Page

    The Affair of the Pink Pearl

    About the Author

    Back Ads

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    The Affair of the Pink Pearl

    ‘The Affair of the Pink Pearl’ was first published in The Sketch, 1 October 1924. Dr John Thorndyke was created by

    Richard Austin Freeman (1862–1943).

    ‘What on earth are you doing?’ demanded Tuppence, as she entered the inner sanctum of the International Detective Agency – (Slogan – Blunt’s Brilliant Detectives) and discovered her lord and master prone on the floor in a sea of books.

    Tommy struggled to his feet.

    ‘I was trying to arrange these books on the top shelf of that cupboard,’ he complained. ‘And the damned chair gave way.’

    ‘What are they, anyway?’ asked Tuppence, picking up a volume. ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles. I wouldn’t mind reading that again some time.’

    ‘You see the idea?’ said Tommy, dusting himself with care. ‘Half-hours with the Great Masters – that sort of thing. You see, Tuppence, I can’t help feeling that we are more or less amateurs at this business – of course amateurs in one sense we cannot help being, but it would do no harm to acquire the technique, so to speak. These books are detective stories by the leading masters of the art. I intend to try different styles, and compare results.’

    ‘H’m,’ said Tuppence. ‘I often wonder how these detectives would have got on in real life.’ She picked up another volume. ‘You’ll find a difficulty in being a Thorndyke. You’ve no medical experience, and less legal, and I never heard

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