Tuppence is more active in the detecting business than Nora, but they share a spirit. Nora Charles in Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man, which first appeared in 1934, is another detective fiction fan who escapes her constricted routine (and the burden of a large fortune) by supporting her spouse, Nick, as he sallies forth and solves a mystery.
Christie was always good at writing self-reliant, intelligent female characters, but in making Tuppence a connoisseur of detective novels, she seems explicitly to be encouraging her female readers to identify with the character.
In placing a married couple at the heart of the action, writers of the genre could involve women in their plots in ways that made them more than victims, sirens or a figure in the kitchen (which is where Mme Maigret is usually to be found). That of course is precisely the appeal of the thriller – vicarious danger. Shocking though that decision might seem to lovers of the books, it is in keeping with the spirit of Christie’s original dedication: “To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure.” “‘Tommy, old thing!’ ‘Tuppence, old bean!’” That chance encounter is lost in the new BBC adaptation of the stories, which have been updated to the 1950s, by which time the couple (played by Jessica Raine and David Walliams) are already married but rather bored with their humdrum existence. In 2015 it was adapted and broadcast on BBC One in Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime starring David Walliams as Tommy and Jessica Raine as Tuppence.On the page, Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley are childhood friends who bump into each other at the end of the first world war. The graphic novel adaptation was first published in French under the title Mr Brown in 2003. It was adapted in the UK in 1985 by London Weekend Television and starred Francesca Annis and James Warwick as Tommy and Tuppence, who would go on to star in the series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime. Published by the Bodley Head in 1922, it became Christie's first novel (and second story) to be made into a film Fox Film in Germany adapted it under the title Die Abenteuer G.m.b.H. It is one of only two novels in which the dedication is addressed to the reader: "To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure". The woman’s name that inspired Agatha Christie would also change, from Jane Fish, to Jane Finn. Originally titled The Joyful Venture, the name changed to The Young Adventurers before finally becoming The Secret Adversary.
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