A Fairy in the Flat: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

By Agatha Christie

Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are called to duty at an international detective agency. On assignment, they are told to be wary of the number sixteen. If they see it in writing or hear it in conversation with a stranger, that means they are close to finding the spy ring they seek.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Aug 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062298331

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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A Fairy in the Flat

About the Author

The Agatha Christie Collection

Copyright

About the Publisher

A FAIRY IN THE FLAT

Mrs. Thomas Beresford shifted her position on the divan and looked gloomily out of the window of the flat. The prospect was not an extended one, consisting solely of a small block of flats on the other side of the road. Mrs. Beresford sighed and then yawned.

I wish, she said, something would happen.

Her husband looked up reprovingly.

Be careful, Tuppence, this craving for vulgar sensation alarms me.

Tuppence sighed and closed her eyes dreamily.

So Tommy and Tuppence were married, she chanted, "and

Reviews for A Fairy in the Flat

[Katherine Settle · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Wull, what the heck? That wasn't even a story. What happened to the tail end of it? There was a dang fairy and pending detective work, and then there I was, left hanging and fairy-less. I will have to go buy a hat, and if you knew how awful I look in hats, you would understand how desperately upset I am.