Someone is distributing counterfeit one-pound notes, and Tommy and Tuppence are on the case. Gilda tells them that she avoids a particular stretch of road because she thinks it's haunted. Tommy and Tuppence meet a famous actress, Gilda Glen. Meanwhile, Tommy is met by the Duke of Blairgowrie, who tells Tommy that the duke's daughter has been kidnapped.

Carter, Tommy's boss in the Secret Service, stops by to tell them that the Russians know Tommy is an impersonator.

Stavansson suspects the involvement of the girlfriend's aunt, who disapproves of him. A polar explorer, Gabriel Stavansson, hires the agency to find his missing girlfriend. Tommy and Tuppence go to the ball to find out what's up. Tuppence reads an ad in the paper and figures out that it is a veiled reference to the Three Arts Ball, a costume ball. 'Finessing the King / The Gentleman Dressed in Newspaper'.Soon after, DI Dymchurch from Scotland Yard arrives, says that he is following Bower, and reports that Bower is suspected of being part of the spy ring that Tommy and Tuppence are there to investigate. A doctor, Charles Bower, comes in to the agency and says that he is getting plagued with fake house calls, after which his office is searched. 'The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger'.A Miss Kingston Bruce hires the agency to find a pink pearl, stolen from her parents' house. Vincent, asks the duo to find his missing girlfriend Janet. In the second, a rich young nobleman, Lawrence St. The first sets the frame, as Tommy and Tuppence are told to take over a detective agency. First published together as a short story called 'Publicity'. Most of the stories satirize popular mystery writers of the era. A total of 14 short stories, all published in magazines between 19, were included in the collection. While they wait for spies to contact them, the two are assigned actual detective cases. Carter, Tommy's boss in the Secret Service, asks him to run the agency, with Tuppence posing as his secretary. The frame story has the Secret Service discovering that 'The International Detective Agency' is actually a front for Russian spies. In the interim since their debut, Tommy and Tuppence have gotten married. It features the return of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, previously seen in spy novel The Secret Adversary. Partners in Crime is a 1929 short story collection by Agatha Christie.

Partners in crime series