In England, politician George Lomax persuades Lord Caterham to host a house party at Chimneys. Anthony heads for London to deliver the draft of a memoir to a publisher, and to return letters to the woman who wrote them. When they meet up in Bulawayo, Anthony Cade agrees to take on two jobs for his friend James McGrath. It is also briefly mentioned in the 1940 novel One, Two, Buckle My Shoe.Ĭhristie later used the “Chimneys” mansion, along with the characters of Bill Eversleigh, Bundle, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Lord Caterham from this book, in the 1929 novel The Seven Dials Mystery. The fictional country of Herzoslovakia makes a return appearance in the short story The Stymphalean Birds which was first published in the April 1940 issue of the Strand Magazine and later appeared in the 1947 collection The Labours of Hercules. A murder occurs in the house, beginning a week of fast-paced events with police among the guests. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.Īt the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to host a weekend party at his home, Chimneys.

It introduces the characters of Superintendent Battle and Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent. The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

The secret at chimneys