The reviews here (on Amazon) do not quite reflect the essence of the story Postern of Fate. It is Tommy and Tuppence, not Poirot or Marple, which means it is a lot of talk, a lot of piffle, fun bits with T & T, a dog, a mystery, a lot of here and there, and all of a sudden an end.
And it is Dame Agatha's farewell to the couple who charmed us with their idealized romance and their happy (albeit a little dangerous at times) investigations.
Read it for the fun. Read it also for the investigative method when nothing strange is expected but little things keep cropping up. Only Tuppence and Tommy would have started stringing the bits together then persisted in continuing to look for more bits.
Yes, sometimes it seems irritating, but you also cannot walk away from the story without wanting to discover more. In that respect, the readers become T & T who cannot walk away from strange bits of information without wanting to discover more. And in that we are still compelled by the octogenarian Dame Agatha to finish her book.
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