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The Seven Dials Mystery (published in 1929) is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie. In it, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Caterham, Bill Eversleigh and Superintendent Battle, as the detectives. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ...
Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (September 15, 1890 – January 12, 1976), was a English crime fiction writer. ...
The Secret of Chimneys is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie in 1925. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The story begins in the mansion Chimneys, home of Lord Caterham, rented by the Cootes for a few weeks. Jerry Wade, one of the visitors, is known for sleeping in late, so his friends decide to play a trick on him. The six of them, which include Jimmy Thesiger and Bill Eversleigh, decide to buy one alarm clock apiece and two extra for two other people and set them all off at 6:30 in the morning the next day in Jerry's room. The plan works, however, Jerry does not wake up. In fact, later in the day he was found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills. Also, seven of the clocks (or dials) had been arranged on the mantleshelf and one was thrown out of the window. Two weeks later, the Caterham entourage returns to Chimneys. Lady Eileen a.k.a. Bundle, along with her cronies, plays the detective working beside the very professional, wooden-faced Superintendent Battle to unmask the murderer of Jerry and the meaning behind the Seven Dials, which leads them to a secret society in a British nightclub. Look out for the Red herrings that are strewn liberally as author leads us up the garden path. A secret society is an organization that requires its members to conceal certain activities—such as rites of initiation —from outsiders. ...
A nightclub (often shortened to club) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ...
Trivia
The title is something of a pun. Seven Dials is a neighborhood of London which at the time was poor and had a reputation for harboring criminals, while the plot also includes seven clocks. The Seven Dials sundial pillar, 2004. ...
This article is about the British city. ...
Film versions The book was made into a movie in 1982, starring John Gielgud. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur John Gielgud OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest British actors in history. ...
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