Blindman's Buff: A Short Story

Tommy & Tuppence #2.07

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.

Genres: Agatha Christie, Mystery, Short Stories, Audiobook, Crime, Fiction, Mystery Thriller

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 2, 2013

About the author

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tommy & Tuppence have been found out!
Tommy has been impersonating a crooked private investigator who was working for nefarious people that British intelligence wanted to keep an eye on. Mr. Carter (Tommy & Tuppence's boss) has informed them to be on the lookout for anyone suspicious because rumor has it that their cover has been blown and they may need to get out of there.



As with a lot of these short stories, T & T try on the styles of different literary detectives. In this one, Tommy decides he'll be Clinton H. Stagg's blind detective, Thornley Colton.
He's hamming it up for Tuppence when things go wrong.



Tommy and Tuppence both get kidnapped, and Tommy ends up playing an elaborate game for his life as a supposedly blind man.
It was a bit (ok, a lot) over the top as the floor was rigged with electricity and the wrong step would fry him.



Still, this was a fun shorty.
Also, I'd never heard of the Thornley Colton stories, so now I've added those to my growing to-be-read list.
Read as part of the short story collection Partners in Crime.

[Meg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tommy and Tuppence continue posing as Theodore Blunt and his assistant of the International Detective Agency. Business is slow and Tommy dons and eyeshade and pretends that he is blind to enhance his other senses and train himself to work well in the dark. While he is wearing the shade, he is taken captive by a Russian operative. Tommy escapes because he really isn’t blind, of course.

[Joop · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bijna niet doorheen te komen.

[Serena · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tommy & Tuppence 02 Partners in Crime

My Rating System:
* couldn't finish, ** wouldn't recommend, *** would recommend, **** would read again, ***** have read again.

[Abeer Albossany · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nice action and parody usage, loved the whole thing.

[Wendy Anderton]

Tommy and Tuppence

There was a good short story . I always love the antics of Tommy and tuppence. No I didn't understand the message that was sent to their receptionist.

[Detroit · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish the motifs behind the crimes of the pseudo Duke and his folks were explained at the end. Or at least some other information related to them.

[Rolf · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another one of the stories in the Partners in Crime collection that is not a standalone mystery, but rather connects to the larger frame story about a series of letters they are tracking as spies posing as private investigators. The advancement of that frame story had me engaged throughout.

[Darinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Tommy and Tuppence story. Light and entertaining.

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

People are starting to suspect that Tommy isn’t Mr Blunt. A rather short story, but, how will Tommy get out of this?

[Dórian Bachmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Um conto com Tommy e Tuppence.
Uma brincadeira de Tommy acaba criando uma situação de muito risco para o casal.

[Emma Gallacher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and creative story! One of the few stories in this collection that wasn’t made onto the screen, I guess it was too simple but I still like it

[itchy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as part of the collection Partners In Crime, 21April2022.

[Sherri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun.

[Kristen Bouma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun

[Alif · Rating 2 out of 5]

i really thought he was blind!

[Zaira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audiolibro.

[Barry · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really interesting T&T story. Give it a go, you won't regret it.