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| Title | : | The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2) |
| Author | : | Agatha Christie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 375 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Harper Collins (first published January 24th 1929) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics |
Agatha Christie
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Gerry Wade é por todos conhecido como um inveterado dorminhoco. Aquando de uma festa organizada em Chimneys, o seu grupo de amigos decide pregar-lhe uma partida memorável. Na cidade vizinha compram oito relógios despertadores, com os quais estão decididos a sobressaltá-lo durante o sono. A noite passa mas as suas expectativas saem goradas quando o atroador toque dos relógios não exerce qualquer efeito sobre Gerry. Tinham razão ao esperar um efeito surpreendente, mas não podiam imaginar que fosse tão trágico. Poderá o relógio desaparecido explicar tão fatal mistério?
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| Original Title: | The Seven Dials Mystery |
| ISBN: | 0007122594 (ISBN13: 9780007122592) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Superintendent Battle #2 |
| Characters: | Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, Clement Edward Alistair Brent, Lord Caterham, Jimmy Thesinger, Sir Oswald Coote, Lady Maria Coote, Rupert Bateman, Gerald Wade, Lorraine Wade, Herr Eberhard, Countess Anna Radzky, Mr. Mosgorovsky, John Bauer, Ronny Devereux |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 16110 Users | 1001 ReviewsWeigh Up Regarding Books The Seven Dials Mystery (Superintendent Battle #2)
Finally, I finished this! I can't believe this super skinny book took that long to get through! Contrary to what that might suggest, I did enjoy the twists and turns of this Agatha Christie novel. The beginning took a bit of time to move, but after that it was action and more action. I enjoyed Bundle, the female protagonist, who was daring and smart. I can't help but pick up on all the sexism. I know it is accurate for the time, but nothing quite shows how we have progressed than reading booksSecret societies, espionage, suspicious deaths, dark deeds in libraries.... This Christie has a number of fun elements, however, I never really got a good sense of what the plot was. I kept smirking at the antics of the upper-class twits and their blundering around country homes*, attempting to figure out who the Seven Dials society was.* Lady Ellen had her moments (though I wanted to shake her for her initial insistence on a servant as criminal, because, of course, someone amongst her class
A young man dies while on a visit to a country house, and very soon a secret society is suspected of murdering him. We have the dead man's sister, a young man working at the Foreign Office, our heroine, Eileen Brent aka Bundle, a Police Superintendent, and a young man working in politics, all more or less banding together to solve the mystery.This book is written in a very light vein and there is plenty of humour in the Wodehouse style. But unlike the other Christie books, this one somehow lacks
Not as intriguing as I thought it would be, but the surprising ending almost makes up for how uninteresting all the rest was.
As much as I love Poirot and Marple, it is refreshing to read stories without them. Somehow I feel Christie is "freer" in these. The Secret of Chimneys is one of my favourites and it was with pleasure that I followed Bundle's adventures once more. She is a brilliant character, and her conversations with her father, Lord Caterham, are hilarious! Actually, most of the dialogues are highly entertaining. A lot of "I say!" and such. There is a very Wodehouse-esque feel to many of the scenes. Even
The Seven Dials Mystery marked a return to form for Agatha Christie. Following the remarkable achievement of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in 1926, she hit a terrible slump following the death of her mother. With a book due every year, she cobbled together some of her short stories into the abysmal Big Four, then hurried through Mystery of the Blue Train--which I didn't think so bad, but she was not proud of it acc to her autobiography. Seven Dials takes us back to Chimneys, the country manor
The Seven Dials Mystery is a fast paced and a very enjoyable book. Some of the characters are from another Christie novel, The Secret of Chimneys. As a huge fan of the queen of crime and whodunits, I had a very nice time reading this book and I was satisfied with the ending which was surprising and full of twists. Agatha Christie always gives the best mystery and its never disappointing!
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