I'm afraid today's going to be a lazy posting day for me. I've just started reading Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary, which features sleuths Tommy and Tuppence. This was published in 1922, so I'm back to my post-WWI era reading and am very much in the mood for a nice cozy mystery. I like the idea of a crime fighting couple, though I believe this pair is only good friends. My teaser is from the opening section of the book to give you a taste of what the two look like.
"Tommy sat down opposite her. His bared head revealed a shock of exquisitely slicked-back red hair. His face was pleasantly ugly--nondescript, yet unmistakably the face of a gentleman and a sportsman. His brown suit was well cut, but perilously near the end of its tether."
"They were an essentially modern-looking couple as they sat there. Tuppence had no claim to beauty, but there was character and charm in the elfin lines of her little face, with its determined chin and large, wide-apart grey eyes that looked mistily out from under straight, black brows. She wore a small bright green toque over her black bobbed hair, and her extremely short and rather shabby shirt revealed a pair of uncommonly dainty ankles. Her appearance presented a valiant attempt at smartness."
It looks as though despite good breeding the two haven't much in the way of money between them, so they hire themselves out as "willing to do anything". Their first job includes an all-expense paid trip to Paris for Tuppence where she'll pose as an American. Easy money never really comes easy and it looks as though Tuppence will get more than she bargains for.
Has anyone read the Tommy and Tuppence series? So far Miss Marple is my favorite, but anything by Agatha Christie is likely to be good!