He was also in Cards on a Table that I read for the #1936Club.Ĭontrary to books featuring Poirot, women have great roles in The Seven Dials Mystery. He’s got this avuncular and quiet authority that makes him endearing.
Superintendent Battle only appears in four books by Agatha Christie and I wish she had used him more often. It involves espionage, secret societies and industrial patterns. I won’t reveal too much about the plot, just enough to say that it’s well-constructed and plays with the reader’s imagination. The young men present at Chimneys this dreadful weekend want to investigate Gerry’s murder and Bundle intends to help them as it happened in her house. Superintendent Battle is inclined to think it was murder. One of them, Gerry Wade, is found dead one morning. They have guests for the weekend, a group of young people who either went to school together or work together in the Foreign Office. The starting point of the story is that Lord and Lady Coote have rented Chimneys from Lord Catherham, Bundle’s father. It’s a classic whodunnit by Agatha Christie. It’s the second book featuring Superintendent Battle, Lady Eileen Brent (“Bundle”) and Bill Eversleigh. Entertainment is guaranteed with her books and this one is no exception. I would have liked to reread Les enfants terribles by Cocteau or Colline by Jean Giono but I needed something light and fun and settled for The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie. This time, we’re reading books published in 1929. I enjoy reading books for Karen and Simon’s club.
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