• Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973 and in the...
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  • Tommy and Tuppence (category Series of books)
    story collection) N or M? (1941 novel) By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968 novel) Postern of Fate (1973 novel) Tuppence appears as a charismatic, impulsive...
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    Eliot's Four Quartets), Postern of Fate (from James Elroy Flecker's "Gates of Damascus"), Endless Night (from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence"), N or...
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  • historical novel by Ross Leckie Hannibal, a dog in Agatha Christie's novel Postern of Fate Hannibal Records, a now-defunct record label "Hannibal", a track by...
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    over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. She is also the most translated individual author in...
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    Archie Christie (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie; they married in 1914 and divorced in...
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  • Passenger to Frankfurt (category Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler)
    Hotel (1965), and Postern of Fate (1973). Lord (Edward) Altamount: retired from diplomatic service, serving as a consultant, and one of the select intelligence...
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  • written, Postern of Fate. Finally, Christie authorised Curtain's removal from the vault and its subsequent publication. It was the last of her books...
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    Max Mallowan (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    number of archaeological expeditions sponsored by the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. He was the second husband of Agatha...
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  • Crime (1929 collection of related short stories) N or M? (1941 novel) By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968 novel) Postern of Fate (1973 novel) The Man in...
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  • Unknown, Passenger to Frankfurt and Postern of Fate. Christie uses a theme for her chapter titles, as she did for many of her novels, in this case the Egyptian...
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  • all of the characters die in the book and therefore "I must make two of the characters innocent, to be reunited at the end and come safe out of the ordeal...
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  • The Sittaford Mystery (category The Hound of the Baskervilles)
    Come Tell Me How You Live (1946) and Christie's final written work, Postern of Fate (1973). In 1928, Christie had been planning a holiday to the West Indies...
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  • conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature...
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  • the others being Death Comes as the End, Passenger to Frankfurt, and Postern of Fate.[citation needed] Hilary Craven, a deserted wife and bereaved mother...
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  • 1973, her very last novel Postern of Fate. Aware that she would write no more novels, Christie authorised the publication of Curtain in 1975 to send off...
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  • character appears briefly in one of the Tommy and Tuppence novels (Postern of Fate), one Hercule Poirot story (Cat Among the Pigeons) and Passenger to...
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  • Agatha and the Midnight Murders (category Cultural depictions of Agatha Christie)
    encounter the prospective buyers and a varied group of hotel guests. The suspense builds as a series of murders takes place in the hotel. Helen Baxendale...
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    James Elroy Flecker (category Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)
    Christie quotes Flecker several times, especially in her final novel, Postern of Fate (1973). "Pass not beneath, O Caravan, or pass not singing. Have you...
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  • the novel Postern of Fate, the final work she ever wrote. The book is divided into two volumes with the first part, which occupies over half of the book...
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  • Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar is a 2019 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie becoming embroiled in a real-life...
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    flashback/forward of 1960s London; in The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins; in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; in Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie;...
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    (1718–after 1756), nicknamed Ivan Kain. Other examples of early Russian detective stories include: "Bitter Fate" (1789) by M. D. Chulkov (1743–1792), "The Finger...
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  • final written work, Postern of Fate (1973). Two of the stories in the collection, The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife and The Case of the Discontented Soldier...
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  • Breakfast of Champions; Nina Bawden's Carrie's War; Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama; Dean Koontz's Demon Seed; Agatha Christie's Postern of Fate. Death...
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  • 1973 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
    Demons by Daylight Jerome Charyn – The Tar Baby Agatha Christie – Postern of Fate Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama Basil Copper – From Evil's...
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    Mary Louisa Molesworth (category Dutch people of English descent)
    of his 1928 autobiographical novel Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man. Agatha Christie mentions The Tapestry Room and Four Winds Farm in her novel Postern of...
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  • 1973 in the United Kingdom (category Years of the 20th century in the United Kingdom)
    (404 ft) high. Death of last pure-bred Norfolk Horn ram. Martin Amis's novel The Rachel Papers. Agatha Christie's novel Postern of Fate. J. G. Farrell's novel...
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    who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit...
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  • Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (category Cultural depictions of Agatha Christie)
    Life in Pictures is a 2004 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British crime-writer Agatha Christie in her words. Olivia Williams as...
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