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Tommy Beresford’s dying aunt leaves him and Tuppence a strange painting that hides a mystery at its heart. By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Summary of the Book Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt at Sunny Ridge. The woman is paranoid, suspicious of her doctors. Soon, they hear an inmate mention a poisoned mushroom stew, and another mentions something hidden behind a fireplace. Three weeks later, the aunt passes away and leaves a painting to Tommy, originally owned by another woman in the establishment. Tuppence tries to return the painting, but following its trail leads them to a spine-tingling mystery that involves murder. About Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was an English novelist best known for her murder mystery novels. She created several best-selling storylines centred around timeless characters such as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence and Parker Pyne. Some of her best known books are A Mysterious Affair at Styles, Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, And Then There Were None and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.