Hollowquay

In the novel Postern of Fate, Hollowquay is a village on the English Channel coast. Tommy and Tuppence bought a house and moved there. By that time, it was a "has-been". It was first a fishing village but was then developed as an "English Riviera". Lately it had become "a mere summer resort, crowded in August". It has or once had a naval base.

Locations in Hollowquay

 * Mrs Garrison's - the local post office shop
 * Women's Institute
 * Parish church and churchyard
 * Betterby's
 * Simmonds
 * Cake shop
 * Durrence's photo shop
 * Meadowside
 * Apple Tree Lodge
 * Pensioners' Palace Club

Houses

 * The Laurels

White Elephant Sale

 * Miss Sanderson
 * Miss Price-Ridley
 * Mrs Lupton - an elderly woman, who walks with two sticks
 * Miss Dorothy “Dotty” Little - ‘The Parish Pump’

Met or mentioned at various teas

 * Mrs Winifred Griffin - (née Morrison) an elderly neighbour who knows about the Parkinsons
 * Mrs Barber
 * Miss Bolland
 * Mrs Henderson
 * Rosemary (née Morrison)
 * Mrs Hendley
 * Mrs Dorothy Rogers

Bodlicotts

 * Mrs Bodlicott - Isaac’s daughter-in-law and Henry’s mother
 * Clarence - Henry’s friend at Junior Brigade
 * Gwenda - Beatrice’s friend, who works in the post office
 * Henry Bodlicott - Isaac’s grandson
 * Isaac Bodlicott - An old gardener, Henry’s grandfather
 * Johnny Bodlicott

Junior Brigaders

 * Tuppence's Junior Brigade

Childhood friends of Winifred Griffin

 * Helen Gilbert
 * Daisy Sherfield
 * Edie Crone
 * Margaret Dickson
 * Mollie Short

Others

 * Dr Crossfield
 * Inspector Norris
 * Gladys
 * Miss Mullins
 * Mrs Billings
 * Mr Durrence

From the past

 * Jonathan Kane