Former British intelligence agent Thomas Beresford leads a calm, measured life in retirement. But his combat partner (and, in addition, his beloved wife) Tuppence is getting more and more bored with hunting spies—after all, she was the right hand of her husband in those damnably dangerous investigations. And then fate presents them with a surprise: Thomas’s former boss offers the Beresfords to head an International Detective Agency...
Contents:
Chapter 1. A fairy in the apartment
Chapter 2. The teapot
Chapter 3. An incident with the pink pearl
Chapter 4. An incident with the pink pearl . (continued)
Chapter 5. An adventure with the ominous stranger
Chapter 6. An adventure with the ominous stranger . (continued)
Chapter 7. Outplaying the king
Chapter 8. A gentleman dressed in a newspaper
Chapter 9. The case of the missing lady
Chapter 10. Hide-and-seek
Chapter 11. The man in the fog
Chapter 12. The man in the fog . (continued)
Chapter 13. The Cruncher
Chapter 14. The Cruncher . (continued)
Chapter 15. The mystery of Sunningdale
Chapter 16. The mystery of Sunningdale . (continued)
Chapter 17. The house of hiding death
Chapter 18. The house of hiding death . (continued)
Chapter 19. The iron alibi
Chapter 20. The daughter of a clergyman
Chapter 21. “The Red House”
Chapter 22. The ambassador’s boots
Chapter 23. The man who was No. 16