Blindman's Buff: A Tommy & Tuppence Story

By Agatha Christie

Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime.

While lunching in the chic Gold Room, Tommy masquerades as a blind detective. It is then that the Beresfords are approached by the elegant Duke of Blairgowrie for help in locating his missing daughter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Aug 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9780062298379

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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BLINDMAN’S BUFF

"Right," said Tommy, and replaced the receiver on its hook.

Then he turned to Tuppence.

That was the Chief. Seems to have got the wind up about us. It appears that the parties we’re after have got wise to the fact that I’m not the genuine Mr. Theodore Blunt. We’re to expect excitements at any minute. The Chief begs you as a favour to go home and stay at home, and not mix yourself up in it any more. Apparently the hornet’s nest we’ve stirred up is bigger than anyone imagined.

All that about my going home is nonsense, said Tuppence decidedly. Who is going to look after you if I go home? Besides, I like excitement. Business hasn’t been very brisk just lately.

Well, one can’t have murders and robberies every day, said Tommy. Be reasonable. Now, my idea is this. When business is slack, we ought to do a certain amount of home exercises every day.

Lie on our backs and wave our feet in the air? That sort of thing?

"Don’t be