Superintendent Battle · Book 1
The Secret of Chimneys
- Published
- 1 January 1925
- Pages
- 258
- ISBN-13
- 9780586045145
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Secret of Chimneys opens Agatha Christie's Superintendent Battle series, a mystery published in 1925 at 258 pages. It's followed by The Seven Dials Mystery.
Its place in Superintendent Battle
The Secret of Chimneys is book 1 in the Superintendent Battle series. It is followed by The Seven Dials Mystery. See the full Superintendent Battle reading order.
Superintendent Battle is Agatha Christie's Scotland Yard professional: a square, wooden-faced, deliberately unremarkable detective who is repeatedly underestimated by the aristocrats and diplomats around him and repeatedly proves them wrong. Where Poirot leans on flamboyant genius and Marple on village intuition, Battle works by patience, procedure, and a poker face — Christie described him as looking like he was carved out of wood, and the joke of the character is that everyone in the room assumes the phlegmatic…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780586045145