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The Seven Dials Mystery THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY Seven clocks tick ominously in a suicide's room, and a dying friend whose last words are "seven dials" lead dapper Jimmy Thesiger and his irrepressible friend "Bundle" Brent to a Soho club. There they learn of the Seven Dials Society, seven masked conspirators who meet in a secret room to talk about stealing scientific secrets—and about hushing up both the murders. AGATHA CHRISTIE THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY Complete and Unabridged ^u^ Q ULVERSCROFT Leicester First published 1929 151492 First Large Print Edition published March 1984 by arrangement with Collins, London & Glasgow and Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc. New York © 1929 by Dodd Mead & Company Inc. British Library CIP Data Christie, Agatha The seven dials mystery.--Large print ed. (Ulverscroft large print series: mystery) 1. Title 823'.912[F] PR6005.H66 ISBN 0-7089-1097-1 TorDntS^ ^.-bllc . ibrary DEER r^,.* CRANCH_ Published by IF . A. Thorpe (Publishing) Ltd. Anstey, Leicestershire Printed and Bound in Great Britain by T. J. Press (Padstow) Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall MAY 7 1985 Contents 1 On Early Rising 2 Concerning Alarum Clocks 3 The Joke that Failed 4 A Letter 5 The Man in the Road 6 Seven Dials Again 7 Bundle Pays a Call 8 Visitors for Jimmy 9 Plans 10 Bundle Visits Scotland Yard 11 Dinner With Bill 12 Inquiries at Chimneys 13 The Seven Dials Club 14 The Meeting of the Seven Dials 15 The Inquest 16 The House Party at the Abbey 17 After Dinner Page 1

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30 31 32 33 34 1 On Early Rising ^ | ^ HAT amiable youth. Jimmy Thesiger, | came racing down the big staircase at A. Chimneys two steps at a time. So precipitate was his descent that he collided with Tredwell, the stately butler, just as the latter was crossing the hall bearing a fresh supply of hot coffee. Owing to the marvellous presence of mind and masterly agility of Tredwell, no casualty occurred. "Sorry," apologised Jimmy. "I say, Tredwell, am I the last down?" "No, sir....