![]() ![]() ![]() While Chimneys is subtler, more sophisticated and more complex, this is one of Christie’s best early jobs of leading the reader astray. This is Agatha Christie penning a sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, and, like that book, Seven Dials is a high-spirited and thoroughly entertaining bit of nonsense. ![]() When a popular author of the 1920s writes a book set at a large country house in summer, where the characters include an absent-minded aristocrat and his strong-minded daughter (with an ominously forceful sister), a pushy self-made millionaire, a secretary called "the efficient Rupert B –" and silly asses named "Pongo" and "Socks", and the plot hinges on a misunderstood remark, one would immediately assume that the author was PG Wodehouse penning a sequel to Something Fresh. Christie, Agatha - The Seven Dials Mystery (1929) ![]()
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