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  • It is not highly regarded by the aficionados, being a Tommy and Tuppence tale but it is, as it happens, better than the last two in that series, "By the pricking of my thumb" and "Postern of Fate".

    Cock-up or conspiracy? Helen 2006

  • I read Christie's Postern of Fate Tommy and Tuppence a few months ago and it seems to be chock full of suggestions for old children's books; can't recall a single one though.

    auntie joanna writes Joanna Bogle 2007

  • Their final appearance, _Postern of Fate_ (1973), was the last book the author completed in her lifetime and one of her poorest, but even it has a certain elegiac charm.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Their final appearance, _Postern of Fate_ (1973), was the last book the author completed in her lifetime and one of her poorest, but even it has a certain elegiac charm.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • They're going to come through the Postern of Fate.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • "Or he seals the Postern of Fate and pursues his war with Herod by other means."

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • Only Azel and a few other trusted agents came and went through what the barrier's creator had nicknamed the Postern of Fate.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • She ain't working on the Postern of Fate, she's pecking on the fake pattern Nakar put in front of the main gate.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • That made moving through the pattern to unlock the Postern of Fate abnormally difficult but he got it right the first time.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • Then he turned and left that place, and went out through the Postern of Fate into the real world of a Qushmarrah sprawled helpless at the feet of her conquerors.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

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