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The Seven
Dials Mystery
Contents
Title Page
Introduction
  1   On Early Rising
  2   Concerning Alarum Clocks
  3   The Joke that Failed
  4   A Letter
  5   The Man in the Road
  6   Seven Dials Again
  7   Bundle Pays a Call
  8   Visitors for Jimmy
  9   Plans
10   Bundle Visits Scotland Yard
11   Dinner with Bill
12   Inquiries at Chimneys
13   The Seven Dials Club
14   The Meeting of the Seven Dials
15   The Inquest
16   The House Party at the Abbey
17   After Dinner
18   Jimmy’s Adventures
19   Bundle’s Adventures
20   Loraine’s Adventures
21   The Recovery of the Formula
22   The Countess Radzky’s Story
23   Superintendent Battle in Charge
24   Bundle Wonders
25   Jimmy Lays his Plans
26   Mainly about Golf
27   Nocturnal Adventure
28   Suspicions
29   Singular Behaviour of George Lomax
30   An Urgent Summons
31   The Seven Dials
32   Bundle is Dumbfounded
33   Battle Explains
34   Lord Caterham Approves
About the Author
The Agatha Christie Collection
Related Products
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
by Val McDermid
Things that everybody knows about Agatha Christie: she produced a lot of books that still outsell the competition; she was the greatest plotter of the classic detective story; she did a vanishing act and turned up amnesiac in Harrogate, identified by the banjo player in the hotel band; she wrote the longest-running play in theatrical history, The Mousetrap; and she couldn’t write thrillers.
So why am I suggesting that anyone would want to read The Seven Dials Mystery? After all, it has all the ingredients of the classic 1920s thriller, as exemplified by; A. E. W. Mason, Sapper and John Buchan. Secret plans, evil foreigners, marvellous cars with running boards and powerful engines, the joint threats of Germany and Communist Russia, house parties, young men wandering round with loaded revolvers and plucky young women—they’re all there by the bucketload.
Oh, and let’s not forget the secret society that meets behind closed doors, whose members are masked so not even they know who the other members are. Bulldog Drummond and Richard Hannay territory, surely? Which we know that Christie can’t do. Right?
Wrong. Because The Seven Dials Mystery isn’t a thriller. It’s a pastiche of a thriller, an antidote to the gung-ho chest-beating of the boys. It’s wry, it’s got its tongue planted firmly in its cheek and it subverts the whole genre it appears to be part of, not least because as well as all of this, it also delivers cleverly dovetaile ............

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