By the Pricking of My Thumbs
This BOOK is dedicated to the many readers in this and other countries who write to me asking: "What has happened to Tommy and Tuppence? What are they doing now?"
My best wishes to you all, and I hope that you will enjoy meeting Tommy and Tuppence again, years older, but with spirit unquenched!
UK
Collins, London, Nov. 1968
US
Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1968

Plot

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 fire place', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure...

Characters

Tommy Beresford • Tuppence Beresford • Albert Batt • Nellie Bligh • Emma Boscowan • Liz Copleigh • Mr. Eccles • Ada Fanshaw • Julia Lancaster • Elizabeth Moody • Dr. Murray • Miss Packard • Major General Sir Josiah Penn • Alice Perry • Amos Perry • Ivor Smith • Sir Philip Starke

Films & TV

Mon petit doigt m'a dit..., FR, 2005
Film list
By the Pricking of My Thumbs, ITV/UK, 2006
Agatha Christie's MARPLE Season 2

UK/US covers

Collins / Fontana Books / HarperCollins

Dodd, Mead and Company

Pocket Books

other publishers

Western Europe covers

Mon petit doigt m'a dit

French index

Le Masque (#1115) 1970

Club des Masques (#201) 1974

Le Livre de Poche (#13851) 1995

other publishers

De pop in de schoorsteen

Dutch index


Lauter reizende alte Damen // Eine reizende alte Dame

German index

Scherz

other publishers

Northern Europe covers

Ett sting i tummen

Swedish index


Huset ved kanalen

Danish index


Gammel dame forsvinner

Norwegian index


Eipä aikaakaan niin voi kauhistus

Finnish index


Pöial sügeleb kui hull

Estonian index


Ērkšķis pirkstā

Lettish index


Spragtelėjus pirštais

Lithuanian index


Southern Europe covers

Sento i pollici che prudono

Italian index


El Cuadro

Spanish index


Per la frisança que sento als dits


Um Pressentimento Funesto / Caminho para a Morte / A Premonição

Portuguese index

Um Pressentimento Funesto


Caminho para a Morte


A Premonição


Οι άγγελοι δεν φλυαρούν / Η εξαφάνιση της γηραιάς κυρίας

Greek index

Οι άγγελοι δεν φλυαρούν


Η εξαφάνιση της γηραιάς κυρίας


Trnci u prstima // Zla Sudba / Зла судба

former Yugoslavia index


Eastern Europe covers

Dům u kanálu

Czech index


Balhüvelykem bizsereg...

Hungarian index


Злото е на път

Bulgarian index


Dom nad kanałem

Polish index


Tabloul // Când mă furnică degetele

Romanian index


Щелкни пальцем только раз // Пальцы чешутся... К чему бы?

Russian index


Middle East & Asian covers

Pembe Evdeki Ölü

Turkish index


מסתרי הבית ליד הנהר

Hebrew index


عن طريق وخز الابهام / قاتلة الأطفال

Arabic index

عن طريق وخز الابهام


قاتلة الأطفال


سوزش سرانگشتان / عروسکی در دودکش بخاری

Persian index

سوزش سرانگشتان


عروسکی در دودکش بخاری


Rumah di Tepi Kanal

Indonesian index


บ้านปริศนา / สัญญาณมรณะ / ฆาตกรรมเลือดเย็น

Thai index

บ้านปริศนา


สัญญาณมรณะ


ฆาตกรรมเลือดเย็น


Bức Họa Chết Người / Người vợ mất tích

Vietnamese index


拇指一豎 / 拇指一竖 / 煦阳岭的疑云 / 顫刺的預兆 / 煦阳岭疑云 / 魔指

Chinese index

拇指一豎


拇指一竖


煦阳岭的疑云


顫刺的預兆


煦阳岭疑云


魔指


親指のうずき

Japanese index


엄지손가락의 아픔

Korean index