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The first case of the detective duo Tommy and Tuppence ***** Dedicated to all those who live monotonous lives in the hope of experiencing, even secondhand, the pleasures and dangers of adventure. (Agatha Christie) Among the gallery of detectives that Agatha Christie enriched the genre of detective literature with, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford stand out for at least two peculiarities. Firstly, they are a married couple, and secondly, they appear in five books over the natural course of time. The first in the series, titled The Mysterious Affair, was published in 1922, a year after her literary debut. In the stories of this duo, where Tuppence's often frantic liveliness perfectly complements Tommy's calmness, Christie ventured into a genre where she was not entirely at home. Secret services, covert intelligence networks, and espionage plots were literary environments in which she did not navigate with such certainty. In The Mysterious Affair, the cheerful and outspoken Tuppence still introduces herself by her maiden name, Prudence Cowley. Less than a year after the war, she meets her childhood friend Thomas, who, like her, is unsuccessfully searching for a job after being discharged from the army. Therefore, they embark on a half-serious business project called Adventurers Ltd. and place an advertisement. When they receive their first offer...