By the Pricking of My Thumbs & Postern of Fate

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Tommy and Tuppence are at it again. This detective couple can never walk away from a mystery and these two later novels are no exception.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs: When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.

But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace", Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure that could spell death for either of them...

Postern of Fate: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.

However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally." And 60 years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill....

Don’t miss out on the rest of the daring couple’s adventures and other Agatha Christie mysteries!

©1973 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2006 HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.

excellent

i think everyone should listen to the 60 Min. Biography Agatha recorded herself, THEN read her stories. It adds so much to each story

Agatha Christie does it again!

As I read/listen my way through the library of Christie’s works, I am amazed how each seems to get better than the one before! I am enjoying getting to know each of her characters and coming back to them in each novel feels like coming home to visit an aunt or uncle and catching up over a cup of tea.

Where was the editor?

I’ve read and listened to many Agatha Christie books, and these were probably my least favorites. By the Pricking of My Thumbs wasn’t bad, but Postern of Fate? Ugh! Was she just tired? Obligated to put out another book by a contract with a publisher? Just why did she write this?

The main characters and their voices are charming (as the movie characters are enjoyable).

I wish the end included more details as to the specific information that caused MJ's death...

Mixed feelings

I liked the first book and was very confused by the second. Still in "Postern of fate" there are some nice thing - T&T relationship or dog Hannibal

Hugh Fraser is incredible

I absolutely love the narrator, Hugh Fraser. These aren't my favourite of Christie's books, however.

Slow moving

I like the other Tommy and Tuppence stories so much more. These two books seem to drag on forever before getting to the point.

One of my favoritez

Tuppence and Tommy books are some of my favorite Christie books. Plus Hugh Fraser is a wonderful narrator.

good for background noise, not much else

By the pricing of my thumbs is interesting enough, but nowhere close to Christie's best. there are worse ways to spend your time. postern of fate is dreadful. rambling and repetitive, the plot lurches unbelievably from revelation to revelation with no conclusion to be drawn. As always, Christie at least writes interesting characters, so there's that in favor of each work. Hugh Fraser breathes a lot of life into the works, which masks a lot of deficiencies in plot. I would not pay for them, but if you got them for free, well there are worse ways to pass the time.

First book great second shore

I was pleasantly surprised by first .I usually don't like this series even though they are by Christie. The second is a horrible bore.For example conversations are way too long. For .me.on the.whole first entry made this set worth a credit