By the Pricking of My Thumbs : A Tommy & Tuppence Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 22 October 2026 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins) in the United Kingdom

Hardback | 304 pages
204 x 135 | 360g

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…