He is an intelligent officer, outwardly impassive and stolid, but who reaches his conclusions applying common sense. The Secret of Chimneys is the first book in which Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard appears. I really thought I had read it but I think I was getting it mixed up with The Seven Dials Mystery, which features some of the same characters and is also set at Chimneys, a large country house, the home of Lord Caterham. It is also the last full length crime novel of hers that I had left to read. It’s one of Agatha Christie’s early ‘thrillers’, first published in 1925. He has to deliver the manuscript memoir of Count Stylptich of Herzoslovakia to a firm of London publishers and to return a packet of letters to a blackmail victim. In The Secret of Chimneys, Anthony Cade is drawn into a deadly conspiracy when he agrees to carry out an errand for his old friend, Jimmy McGrath.
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