Superintendent Battle · Book 2
The Seven Dials Mystery
- Published
- 1 January 1929
- Pages
- 194
- ISBN-13
- 9785227017123
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Seven Dials Mystery is the second book in Agatha Christie's Superintendent Battle series, published in 1929 at 194 pages. It follows The Secret of Chimneys and precedes Murder Is Easy.
Its place in Superintendent Battle
The Seven Dials Mystery is book 2 in the Superintendent Battle series. It follows The Secret of Chimneys. It is followed by Murder Is Easy. 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 9785227017123