The Seven Dials Mystery is a light-hearted and very enjoyable thriller.
False trails, espionage, a secret society and an unwanted married proposal face Bundle as she goes about her sleuthing. Widowed some years ago, he is managed by his butler Tredwell and Bundle while he avoids anything that requires an effort or a decision.īundle puts herself in the way of investigating the murders focusing on ‘Seven Dials,’ the words the dying man uttered. Bundle is the antithesis of her father ‘whose prevailing characteristic was a wholly amiable inertia.’ Christie calls him ‘the egoist’ and he only really cares about his own comfort. He had been shot.īundle is the eldest daughter of Lord Caterham, the owner of Chimneys, and he had let the house out to Sir Oswald Coote, an eminent businessman and his wife. The man gasps out a few words and then dies. Their doubts are confirmed when Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent nearly runs over another young man of their party when he staggers onto the road. At first his death seems to have been an accidental overdose or suicide but his friends who are also staying at Chimneys aren’t convinced. A practical joke takes a deadly turn with the death of a healthy young Foreign Office worker while he was a house guest at historic ‘Chimneys,’ an English country estate.
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