The Seven Dials Mystery audiobook

The Seven Dials.An international secret society of super-villains?Perhaps.And it looks like it will be up to Lady Eileen (aka Bundle) to step in and figure out just what the hell is going on after a houseguest is found dead in her family home.Again.Much to her father's dismay.Remember good old Bundle from The Secret of Chimneys?No? I do, but I think that's because I only recently finished the book.Well, I liked her a lot in that one, so it was nice to see her pop up and star in a story of her own.Superintendent Battle is another of my favorites, and I loved the role he played in this story from start to finish.This one is a murder mystery with a hint of spy thriller in it. That kind of gave this a bit of a different/cool vibe. I really liked that Bundle was ready to go, willing to act, and not afraid to think outside the box people tried to stuff her in. I don't want to say anything that could spoil the story, but I thought the reveal had that special touch of classic Agatha to it.This was yet another of her books that I'd not heard of prior to actively seeking out everything that she's written. If you're looking for something new, The Seven Dials Mystery might turn out to be one of the hidden gems in Christie's library for you.Recommended.

A great fun Christie mystery.

I enjoyed this Agatha Christie mystery very much. It had quite a different feel to it from the Miss Marple and Poirot mysteries. Dare I say, it was almost an adult Nancy Drew (ish) style mystery; mainly due to the fact that the protagonists were young people, rather than the more mature sleuths that Christie peopled her stories with. You find wealthy, carefree, Lady Eileen (aka Bundle) Brent and Jimmy Thesiger and their acquaintances trying to solve the murders of two of their friends. What it the Seven Dials group? Who are the mysterious members? I thought it was a pretty standard thriller/ mystery, but in the last section, there were many twists and turns and any guesses I had about the culprit and the mysterious group were turned on their heads. Excellent story.

I've decided that you cannot go wrong with Agatha Christie. Her books are character driven and sometimes I get confused about who's who, but she never fails to keep me reading on. This was a test in who-dun-it skills which I need to master. I thought that the Superintendent/police chief was the bad guy. I got it all wrong. The story is wrapped up in tons of funny, aristocratic dialogue. And then all of a sudden Christie adds a couple of sentences like this: There is no need to describe in detail the conversation of the next ten minutes. It consisted mostly of repetitions.Classic! It's funny because before you get to this sentence there seems to be ten minutes of a gushy love scene full of repetitions.On the whole, a good historic/espionage/who-dun-it. I'm a huge fan. Now onto the next one. Crooked House or Ordeal By Innocence?

Pues me he encontrado una novela bastante diferente en la obra de Christie, al menos en comparación con las que ya he leído. Las historias de la autora siempre tienen un esquema similar, un grupo de personas, normalmente en un mismo recinto, son investigados sobre la muerte de uno de ellos.En este caso, El misterio de las siete esferas se aleja bastante de este tipo teatral de búsqueda del asesino. Nos vamos a encontarar con la típica novela negra de gánsters y criminales, robos de objetos importantes, traiciones y amores. No era consciente de que Agatha tuviera este tipo de historias dentro de su extensa obra y la verdad es que ha sido un grato descubrimiento. La investigación es llevada a cabo, en gran medida, por una joven mujer, cosa bastante atípica en el género, donde la mujer suele estar reservada para el papel de la femme fatale.El final me dejó, una vez más, totalmente desconcertado. No me lo esperaba para nada. Espero encontrar en el futuro más libros de este tipo entre sus novelas. Christie es una reina y siempre lo será

** spoiler alert ** This book was astounding. It starts by describing Mr Wade, a respectable man who appears to sleep through earthquakes. Four children decide to buy eight alarm clocks, which start ringing immediately after each other. Surely no one can sleep through that! But when Wade is late to breakfast again,it’s up to the butler to wake him up. What happens next is the classic agatha Christie style.Later, upon investigation the police realise that there were only seven alarum clocks present, but the kids are sure that there were eight. After some time,the police discover a letter addressed from seven dials.SEVEN DIALS??THERE WERE SEVEN DIALS PRESENT ON HIS DEATHBED.Bundle takes it upon herself to solve this enthralling mystery.Warning spoilers in the next paragraph!*I can’t believe that I used to think that seven dials was evil. Now when I think back I realise that apart from the detectives words, there was no proof at all that seveb dials was evil. JIMMY!*Ps I’m sorry about the stupid review. Hey, it’s my first time after all.

O carte simpatica cu personaje multiple, deci suspectii crimelor petrecute nu lipsesc. Nu m-am impacat bine cu personajele, multe aveau porecle si e usor sa te incurci in atatea nume. Inca o data inspectorul Battle rezolva misterul.

What starts out as a practical joke between friends tragically backfires in this mystery by the great Agatha Christie. Published in the UK and US in 1929, the book features Inspector Battle and some of the cast of characters from an earlier book, The Secret of Chimneys. I like the female amateur sleuth, Bundle (Lady Eileen Brent), much better than Inspector Battle. She has an energetic personality and is determined to ferret out the truth by whatever means she finds necessary -- even hiding in cramped closets. Inspector Battle appears in 5 of Christie's novels. Friends are gathered at Chimmeys again and one of the crew, Gerry Wade, proves to be a late and very sound sleeper. The group decides to mess with him a bit, hiding 8 alarm clocks around his room after he's gone to bed. The clocks are set to ring, one after the other. The next morning they eagerly await the cacophony....and the clocks do start ringing.....but even an entire room full of jangling alarm clocks aren't enough to wake a dead man.....This book was one of the first Christie novels I ever read. I bought a box set of Christie novels at a garage sale when I was 9, and for whatever reason, this book was grouped in with several Poirot novels. I remember thinking it was hilarious that they hid alarm clocks in someone's room because the person never got up on time. :) I spent an entire summer reading six Christie novels -- the font was entirely too small for a 9 year old to read quickly and I kept having to look up words in the dictionary or ask my father about 1920's vernacular that made no sense to me. In the end, I made it through every single one of those books....and a lifelong love of Agatha Christie's novels was born. I revisited this novel with a sense of nostalgia. :) I like Bundle and her group of friends (even the ones that seem upper class twits) and Inspector Battle's style makes for an enjoyable mystery. Battle seems a bit like Columbo....he pretends to be a bit simple or absent minded, while all the time he has an incredibly sharp mind. In the end, he pounces on the bad guys like a tiger with a badge. Christie is the queen of The Reveal, and Battle fits right into that scenario. Enjoyable read. The plot widens out into quite the conspiracy and complex dastardly deeds. What seems cliche in 2020 (group of nefarious criminals using disguise and complex sneakiness to commit international crimes) was new and daring at the time this book was written. It wasn't cliche when Christie came up with these plots....everyone imitating her made it old hat. So, I put any sense of reality out of my head and just enjoyed reading this story!I listened to the audio book (Harper Audio) version of this book. Narrated by Emilia Fox, the audio is 8 hours long. Emilia has a pleasant voice and reads at a steady pace. She does a great job of voice acting....perfect narrator to bring Bundle to life! Enjoyable listening experience!While I did enjoy this return to Chimneys and Inspector Battle....I really want to read the first Jane Marple book -- The Murder at the Vicarage. I like Christie's side characters for the most part....but Battle and Tommy & Tuppence just aren't Poirot or Marple. So.....while I am on a quest to read Christie's novels in order and doing my best to do so.....I'm going to take the liberty to skip the next book Partners in Crime (short stories featuring Tommy & Tuppence) temporarily.....and read Murder at the Vicarage first. In my defense, Partners in Crime, is technically already out of sequence as it gathers short stories published in magazines from 1923-24, and gathered together in book form in 1929. Marple first.....then Partners in Crime. :)

This novel is a thriller with a bit of P.G Wodehouse thrown in. Bundles a character from the Secret of Chimneys returns with her scatty father Lord Caterham who is in the mould of Clarence in the Blanding Castle series. Gerry Wade is staying as a guest of Sir Oswald Coote and every morning sleeps in till almost noon. The other guests including Lady Eileen Brent or better known as Bundles decide to play a practical joke on him. They purchase eight alarm clocks and set them to go off in his room beginning at 6.30 a.m. However, the alarm clocks go off and Wade does not awaken, he is found dead from an apparent overdose from a sleeping draught. One of the guests Jimmy Thesiger finds Seven clocks lined up on the mantle piece. What does it mean? Bundles finds that her neighbor George Lomax has received a threatening letter from the Seven Dials society. Battle becomes involved and the young friends investigate after another guest is killed in front of Bundles who initially thinks she has killed him by hitting him with her car. What follows is secret formulas, a fight in the library, the young people getting involved. Bill the secretary to George Lomax appears not to really help. There is a nice twist at the end with Lorraine Wade and Jimmy. A good well crafted slightly comic espionage thriller.