The Secret of Chimneys

This Warbler Classics edition includes a detailed biographical note.

Eager to leave his job as a tour guide in Zimbabwe, international vagabond Anthony Cade meets by chance an old acquaintance who offers him a small sum to dispatch a few errands in England.

Ensuing events find Cade at a weekend party at Chimneys, the historic home of Lord Caterham, when a murder occurs.

As much a murder mystery as it is a treasure hunt, the tale is chockfull of impersonators, inspectors, riddles, and intrigue.

The Secret of Chimneys is a first-class romp and one of Christie's best early thrillers.

Agatha Christie is the world's bestselling mystery writer.

The publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles heralded the arrival of a detective fiction writer of astonishing talent and launched the illustrious career of 'The Queen of Mystery.'

In The Secret of Chimneys Christie introduces Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and the spirited 'it' girl in the character of Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent, both of whom appear in later stories.

Over the course of more than half a century Christie wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections.

Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages.