The daughter of a country archdeacon, one of five children, she misses the sense of purpose she had as a nurse in the war and cannot settle as a housewife, despite her love for Tommy and their son, George. Prudence (Tuppence) Beresford ( Jessica Raine) is a quick-witted, irrepressible woman with a tendency to leap without looking. It is a perilous world, in which Tommy flourishes. He does not realise that he has no head for business, but he does have a knack for espionage and crime-solving in a Cold War world full of double agents and assassins. He tries to look after his spirited wife, Tuppence, and his son, George, by various money-making schemes. Thomas (Tommy) Beresford ( David Walliams), in his early 40s, is a clever and logical man whose business ventures never quite work out, just as his university and army days were never successful.

The action is updated from the 19 settings of the novels to the 1950s, and the era of the Cold War against Stalin. The novels are adapted from the short stories of Partners in Crime the first three episodes from the 1922 novel The Secret Adversary, and the last three episodes from the 1941 novel N or M? The series was not renewed for a second series by the BBC.

The six-part series is an adaptation of two Tommy and Tuppence detective novels by Agatha Christie. Partners in Crime is a British drama television series that began on BBC One on 26 July 2015.

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