Books with title Postern of Fate

"The acknowledged queen of detective fiction the world over." The Observer. Now retired, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford move to Devonshire. In an old children's book left in the attic, Tuppence finds cryptic clues to a murder which took place in the village during the FirstWorld War. The girl who died was mixed up in an old scandal concerned with the passing on of naval secrets. Was she innocent or guilty? True to form, Tommy and Tuppence are intrigued and investigate - and true to form, they find themselves in danger...

When Tommy and Tuppence Beresford moved to a quiet English village, they were looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But, as they soon discovered, their rambling old house held both secrets and dangers. Who was Mary Jordan? Why had someone left a code message in an old book saying that she did not die naturally? And what was the significance of Oxford and Cambridge? Once more, ingenuity and insight are called for as the pair, along with Hannibal the dog, are drawn into old mysteries and new dangers.

"What did she die off?" "Somebody brought a few foxglove leaves in with some spinach from the garden, by accident and then they ate it. Mind you, that probably wouldn't kill you""No," said Mr. Robinson. "But if you then put a strong dose of digitalin alkaloid in the coffee and just made sure that Mary Jordan got it in her coffee, or in a cocktail earlier, then the foxglove leaves would be blamed and it would all be taken to be an accident. But Alexander Parker, or whatever the schoolboy's name was, was too sharp for that. He had other ideas, did he? Anything else, Beresford? When was this? First World War, Second World War, of before that?"Before. Rumors say she was a German Spy"