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      Postern of Fate

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by

      Collins 1973

      Agatha Christie® Tommy & Tuppence® Postern of Fate™

      Copyright © 1973 Agatha Christie Limited. All rights reserved.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780006165279

      Ebook Edition © Jan 2015 ISBN: 9780007422739

      Version: 2017-04-17

      For Hannibal and his master

      Four great gates has the city of Damascus …

      Postern of Fate, the Desert Gate, Disaster’s Cavem,

      Fort of Fear …

      Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing.

      Have you heard

      That silence where the birds are dead, yet something

      pipeth like a bird?

      from Gates of Damascus by James Elroy Flecker

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       BOOK I

       CHAPTER 1: Mainly Concerning Books

       CHAPTER 2: The Black Arrow

       CHAPTER 3: Visit to the Cemetery

       CHAPTER 4: Lots of Parkinsons

       CHAPTER 5: The White Elephant Sale

       CHAPTER 6: Problems

       CHAPTER 7: More Problems

       CHAPTER 8: Mrs Griffin

       CHAPTER 1: A Long Time Ago

       CHAPTER 2: Introduction to Mathilde, Truelove and kk

       CHAPTER 3: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

       CHAPTER 4: Expedition on Truelove; Oxford and Cambridge

       CHAPTER 5: Methods of Research

       CHAPTER 6: Mr Robinson

       BOOK III

       CHAPTER 1: Mary Jordan

       CHAPTER 2: Research by Tuppence

       CHAPTER 3: Tommy and Tuppence Compare Notes

       CHAPTER 4: Possibility of Surgery on Mathilde

       CHAPTER 5: Interview With Colonel Pikeaway

       CHAPTER 6: Postern of Fate

       CHAPTER 7: The Inquest

       CHAPTER 8: Reminiscences About an Uncle

       CHAPTER 9: Junior Brigade

       CHAPTER 10: Attack on Tuppence

       CHAPTER 11: Hannibal Takes Action

       CHAPTER 12: Oxford, Cambridge and Lohengrin

       CHAPTER 13: Visit From Miss Mullins

       CHAPTER 14: Garden Campaign

       CHAPTER 15: Hannibal Sees Active Service With Mr Crispin

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