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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie

Tommy & Tuppence: Issue #5

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

HarperCollins Publishers (1 Jan 2015)
9780007590629
| Paperback
289 pages | English
$ 19.99 | Value: $ 18.25
Dewey 823.912

Genre

  • Detective And Mystery Stories

Subject

  • Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious Character) - Fiction
  • Beresford, Tuppence (Fictitious Character) - Fiction

Plot

An old woman in a nursing home speaks of a child buried behind the fireplace...

When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic...