Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever murder mystery featuring recurring character Superintendent Battle that pokes light-hearted fun at the international spy thriller genre--soon to be a major Netflix series Gerry Wade is famous for over-sleeping, but when a group of his fellow young guests at a country house weekend decide to play a prank on him by setting eight alarm clocks to go off in his room early one morning, they are rewarded with a nasty surprise. This time, poor Gerry is quite literally dead to the world. As the police descend upon Chimneys, the historic estate of Lord Caterham, the youthful friends—led by the bold and clever Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent—take investigative matters into their own hands. As more victims turn up dead and clues seem to point to a wider plot, Bundle and her pals risk their lives to find the murderer before he kills again.
Download or read book Seven Dials written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty’s Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful, notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt’s orders are to protect—at all costs—the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. The distinguished public servant, whispered to be Ayesha’s lover, insists that she is as innocent as Pitt himself. Pitt’s journey to uncover the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to the insidious London slum called Seven Dials—and ultimately to a packed London courtroom in which shocking secrets will at last be revealed.
Download or read book The Secret of Chimneys written by Agatha Christie and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Download or read book Scarweather written by Anthony Rolls and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "Readers will be rewarded with a suspenseful read, rich in setting; characters; details about WWI and its aftermath; and a horrific resolution worthy of Hitchcock." —Booklist 'My friend Ellingham has persuaded me to reveal to the public the astounding features of the Reisby case. As a study in criminal aberration it is, he tells me, of particular interest, while in singularity of horror and in perversity of ingenious method it is probably unique.' 1913. John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Tolgen Reisby. At Scarweather—Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England—Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife, and matters soon take a dangerous turn. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. This unorthodox novel from 1934 is by a gifted crime writer who, wrote Dorothy L. Sayers, 'handles his characters like a "real" novelist and the English language like a "real" writer—merits which are still, unhappily, rarer than they should be in the ranks of the murder specialists.'
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. . . .
Download or read book Partners in Crime written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Famous Volume Of Tommy & Tuppence Linked Short Stories, Reissued In A New Look To Coincide With The Brand New Series Of Tommy & Tuppence Bbc Movies. Tommy And Tuppence Beresford Were Restless For Adventure, So When They Were Asked To Take Over Blunt S International Detective Agency, They Leapt At The Chance. After Their Triumphant Recovery Of A Pink Pearl, Intriguing Cases Kept On Coming Their Way: A Stabbing On Sunningdale Golf Course; Cryptic Messages In The Personal Columns Of Newspapers; And Even A Box Of Poisoned Chocolates.
Download or read book Death in a Desert Land written by Andrew Wilson and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fizzy with charm yet edged with menace, Andrew Wilson’s Christie novels do Dame Agatha proud. Perfect for fans of Ruth Ware and Jacqueline Winspear.” —A.J. Finn, internationally bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Queen of Crime Agatha Christie returns to star in another stylish mystery, as she travels to the excavation of the ancient city of Ur where she must solve a crime with motives that may be as old as civilization itself. Fresh from solving the gruesome murder of a British agent in the Canary Islands, mystery writer Agatha Christie receives a letter from a family who believe their late daughter met with foul play. Before Gertrude Bell overdosed on sleeping medication, she was a prominent archaeologist, recovering ancient treasures in the Middle East. Found near her body was a letter claiming that Bell was being followed. To complicate things further, Bell was competing with another archeologist, Mrs. Woolley, for the rights to artifacts of immense value. Christie travels to far-off Persia, where she meets the enigmatic Mrs. Woolley as she is working on a big and potentially valuable discovery. Temperamental but brilliant, Mrs. Woolley quickly charms Christie but when she does not hide her disdain for the recently deceased Miss Bell, Christie doesn’t know whether to trust her—or if Bell’s killer is just clever enough to hide in plain sight. With Wilson’s signature “strong characters, shrewd plotting and a skillful blending of fact and fiction” (Shelf Awareness, starred review on A Talent for Murder), this is a thrilling adventure based on real events in Christie's life and set amidst the cursed ruins of an ancient land.
Download or read book The Complete Superintendent Battle written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 1800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book The Love Detectives An Agatha Christie Short Story written by Agatha Christie and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Download or read book When the Going Was Good written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1929 and 1935 Evelyn Waugh travelled widely and wrote four books about his experiences. In this collection he writes, with his customary wit and perception, about a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in 1930; his travels in Aden, Zanzibar, Kenya and the Congo, coping with unbearable heat and plagued by mosquitoes; a journey to Guyana and Brazil; and his return to Addis Ababa in 1935 to report on the war between Abyssinia and Italy. Waugh's adventures on his travels gave him the ideas for such classic novels as Scoop and Black Mischief.
Download or read book Eggs Beans and Crumpets written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Christie written by Matthew Bunson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painstakingly researched, this illustrated reference captures the spirited imagination of Dame Agatha and the intriguing atmosphere of her tales. Includes a comprehensive Christie biography, cross-referenced with plot synopses and character listings. Photos throughout.
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by Ancient Wisdom Publications. This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Seven Dials Mystery" is a detective novel by the renowned British author Agatha Christie. It was first published in the UK in January 1929. The book is a sequel to Christie's earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys, and features some of the same characters, including Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, Superintendent Battle, and Lord Caterham Plot Summary: The story begins with a group of young people staying at a country house called Chimneys. One of the guests, Gerry Wade, is found dead in bed, apparently from an overdose of a sleeping drug. However, suspicions arise when eight alarm clocks, meant to prank Gerry for his habit of oversleeping, are discovered in his room, with one missing. Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, the spirited daughter of Lord Caterham, becomes involved in the investigation. Her curiosity leads her to uncover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials," which seems to be connected to Gerry's death. As the plot unfolds, Bundle and her allies navigate through layers of deception, hidden identities, and mysterious activities, all tied to a larger, sinister conspiracy.
Download or read book The Seven Dials Mystery written by Agatha Christie and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
