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adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Unlike the first Tommy and Tuppence book, which features an elaborate, beautifully paced mystery, this installment is a series of vignettes. The couple has taken over a detective agency, and each chapter or pair of chapters serves as a stand-alone mystery. Some are extremely clever, and others quite silly, and I missed having a book-length mystery arc to follow. Also, a major thread of the book is Tommy and Tuppence's discussion and imitation of famous literary detectives; if you're unfamiliar with the classics, much of this will go over your head. (It certainly went over mine.) I had a hard time feeling invested, but it was adequate for light reading.

J'ai adoré..
Une livre avec diverses contes, des plus faciles à comprendre et des autres un peu plus complexes.. mais un très bon livre!
L'auteure parle beaucoup d'autres écrivains et d'autres inspecteurs de la littérature de son époque..
Un excellent livre, mais il y a des meilleurs de cette auteure!

Tommy and Tuppence are not my favourite detectives, but they are definitely a funny couple. I enjoyed some of the mysteries quite a lot, and I loved how each short story has Tommy or Tuppence trying to imitate a famous detective from novels, including Poirot, which I found great!

This is definitely not as good as the first Tommy and Tuppence long novel, but it made for a great and enjoyable read.

hkoops's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

65% listened. Not a novel, but a book with individual stories of varying quality. It starts 6 years after the first book. Now married, Tommy and Tuppence start a detective agency. Each story refers to a fictional detective known in that period, of which I only recognized Sherlock Holmes and Poirot. That is why I did not get many of the numerous references in the stories. I gave it 2 stars and placed it on the abandoned shelf.

Moja prvá kniha od Agathy, ktorá nebola Hercule. Agatha si tu v podstate robí srandu zo súčasných populárnych detektívnych kníh, ako aj Sherlocka a zo samej seba. Male šedé bunky hovoria, že Tommy a Tuppence je smiešna dvojka, ktorá miluje čítanie detektívok a v každom novom prípade ich detektívnej kancelárie si berú na seba charaktery rôznych postáv z detektívok. Mon ami, už sa teším na ďalšie čítanie tejto série popri mojom cvičení hry na husle.

2.5 but I had to round down. I loved the first novel in the series, but this series of short stories were super disappointing. They barely developed the characters and every time I was ready for something gut-wrenching for them to get out of, the story was over. Tied neatly with a bow!
lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
adventurous lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Divertida y fresca, la pareja de Tommy y Tuppence Beresford, pareja de detectives improvisados de Agatha Chtistie son sumamente entrentenidos, y en este segundo tienen que resolver un sinfin de casos con ingenio y suerte, mientras fingen ser los propietarios de una agencia de de detectives.
La estructura del texto es refrescante y se siente moderno y ágil, saltándo de un caso a otro sin alargarlos pero al mismo tiempo con todos los ingredientes que han echo famosa a Christie en el ultimo siglo. La pareja protagonista es todavía mas carismatica que en libro anterior, perfectos para una serie de televisión de misterios. Aparte de eso el libro esta lleno de referencias a los grandes de la novela negra, y pequeñas indirectas a los criticos de la escritora como hace en casi todos sus textos.
Lo que se le puede criticar es que despues de unos cuantos casos, el libro se empieza a sentir repetitivo y que el caso que sirve como hilo conductor de toda la obra se resuelve demasiado rápido, en menos de tres páginas puediendo ser un poco mas extenso y se resuelto de una manera mas ingeniosa.
Recomendable para jovenes que quieran dar el salto y conocer a esta maestra del genero detectivesco.