Tommy and Tuppence · Book 5
Postern of Fate
- Published
- 1 January 1973
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9789504907275
- Type
- novel
About this book
Postern of Fate closes out the published run of Tommy and Tuppence to date, following By the Pricking of My Thumbs in 1973 and bringing Christie's fifty-year, real-time experiment with an aging detective couple to its end.
Its place in Tommy and Tuppence
Postern of Fate is book 5 in the Tommy and Tuppence series. It follows By the Pricking of My Thumbs. See the full Tommy and Tuppence reading order.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Agatha Christie's other detective duo: a married couple of amateur adventurers who first meet as broke, restless twentysomethings just after the First World War and age in something close to real time across five books spanning more than fifty years, from post-war spy games in 1922 to elderly amateur sleuthing in the 1970s. Where Poirot and Marple stay fixed in a kind of eternal present, Tommy and Tuppence actually grow up, marry, raise children, and grow old together on the page…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789504907275