Obviously, their trip to the opera quickly becomes rather more The Man Who Knew Too Much, my model for all “Aargh, I’m out of my depth” dramas of this nature. First they must meet Carter in an unlikely looking drinking den to pitch him their new business idea for a wig emporium. Meanwhile, in rainy London, Tommy and Tuppence are all spiffed-up for a date, he in a tux and she in fur, heading for the opera in Covent Garden. It’s a fascinating account of the scientific community holed-up in the New Mexico desert during the second world war, racing Hitler to build the atom bomb. For those keen to learn more about the subject, get on iPlayer and watch The Race for the World’s First Atomic Bomb: A Thousand Days of Fear (BBC4). The new mystery involves the kidnapping of a top British scientist, Gilbert Worthing, a bomb specialist who was involved in the Manhattan Project. Now we know the Beresford universe, Partners in Crime can go fully Marple and launch straight into the crime of the week/fortnight.
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