The Seven Dials Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394752252
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words 'Seven Dials' were to take on a new and chilling significance...

The Secret of Chimneys

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 9363185001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
'The Secrets of Chimneys' by Agatha Christie is a classic mystery novel that unfolds against the backdrop of an English country estate called Chimneys. The story follows the protagonist, Anthony Cade, who becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue and deception. The Narrative kicks off when Anthony Cade, a charming but down-on-his-luck adventurer, is approached by a friend, Jimmy McGrath, to help deliver a political document to the English government. The Secrets of Chimneys is a masterfully crafted mystery novel that keeps readers guessing until the very end. With its intricate plot and cleverly concealed clues, the novel showcases Christie's unparalleled skill as the queen of crime fiction.

Penny Plain

Author: O. Douglas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The Cinderella story of Jean Jardine, a Scottish girl raising her younger brothers on her own... until a mysterious stranger asks for her hospitality. Part romance, part family story, and part small town semi-satire.

Towards Zero

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006762
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
One of Agatha Christie’s own ten favorite novels, Towards Zero puts Superintendent Battle and Inspector Leach on the case as they investigate the murder of an elderly widow. What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a house party gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. As Superintendent Battle discovers, it is all part of a carefully laid plan—for murder.

The Complete Superintendent Battle

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780007136797
Category : Battle, Superintendent (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 1800

Book Description
A slipcase containing five classic Agatha Christie novels, all sporting the stunning '21st Century' Christie livery and featuring the redoubtable Superintendent Battle. Superintendent Battle's impassive expression misleads many new aquantances into underestimating the determined lawman -- but it is not nothing that one of Scotland Yard's finest detectives is assigned the most volatile and mysterious cases of murder. In his first adventure, The Secret of Chimneys, the Superintendent is concerned with a missing packet of letters -- and their vital connection to murder and control of the throne of Herzoslovakia. In The Seven Dials Mystery Battle returns to Chimneys, the sprawling country house with a dark secret, to investigate the existence of a secret organisation and the numerous deaths linked to it. Cards on the Table is considered the best of Christie's 'closed-door' murders and centres on an evening of Bridge with four successful murderers and four crime experts. It's up to the Superintendent and Hercule Poirot to discover who exactly killed the host -- and why. The quiet, English, rural village depicted in Murder is Easy is shocked by a series of brutal murders -- and Superinte

The Seven Dials Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780061002755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A lovely weekend in the country turns macabre when a houseguest is found dead from an overdose of sleeping medication. On the mantel, seven clocks are lined up, all ticking ominously.

The Love Detectives: An Agatha Christie Short Story

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000745211X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37

Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

The Seven Dials Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Seven Dials Mystery. Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other houseguests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank then backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words "Seven Dials" were to take on a new and chilling significance. . . .

The Seven Dials Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553350517
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
In a suicide's room, seven clocks tick ominously, and the last words of a dying friend are "seven dials." The enigmatic sevens lead Jimmy Thesiger and his dashing cohort "Bundle" Brent to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society: seven masked conspirators who meet in a secret room to talk about stealing scientific secrets and hushing up murder.

The Seven Dials Mystery

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
As a practical joke, fellow houseguests put eight alarm clocks under Gerry Wade's bed, only to find a missing clock and a dead man.