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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.
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Classical in form, resolved, earnest and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Bantam, Librairie des Champs-Elysées, Macmillan Digital Audio
- Editions
- 75
- Language
- Spanish, English, French, Italian
- ISBN
- 9798722196026
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- Tommy Beresford (Fictitious character)
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- Beresford, tommy (fictitious character), fiction
“"Books!" said Tuppence.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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