What with a butler named Tredwell, an Inspector Badgworthy, and a bumbling politician, one George Lomax – not to mention a stay at the posh Blitz Hotel in London – the author appears to have been having a lot of innocent fun with this one. The dead bodies are a side plot to this thriller, written, one suspects, with tongue firmly in cheek. Hidden identities, a violent revolutionary society, an accomplished jewel thief, a fabulous diamond, coded letters, secret passages and misleading clues… Can anyone be trusted? Is anyone really who they appear to be? And who does beautiful young widow Virginia Revel really love? ***** Both appear to be in high demand and swap hands several times two men are shot, and the diplomatic and aristocratic guests at stately country home “Chimneys” are embroiled in multiple mysteries.

Method(s) of Death: SINGLE PISTOL SHOT x 3 100 Word Plot Summary:Īnthony Cade, international adventurer, comes into a double commission to deliver a politically sensitive Herzoslovakian manuscript of memoirs and a bundle of blackmailing letters to England. Setting: Briefly in Africa, with most of the action taking place in the stately English country house, “Chimneys”.ĭetection by: SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE of Scotland Yard and various international colleagues ANTHONY CADE and several aristocratic acquaintances.įinal Body Count: 3 in this narrative more in the background story. The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie ~ 1925.

The secret at chimneys