The Seven Dials mystery

ON EARLY RISING That amiable youth, Jimmy Thesiger, came racing down the big staircase at Chimneys two steps at a time. So precipitate was his descent that he collided with Tredwe...

CONCERNING ALARUM CLOCKS "Now where shall we put them?" Dinner was over. Lady Coote had been once more detailed for duty. Sir Oswald had unexpectedly come to the rescue by sugges...

THE JOKE THAT FAILED "Twelve o'clock," said Socks despairingly. The joke--as a joke--had not gone off any too well. The alarum clocks, on the other hand, had performed their part...

A LETTER "Inconsiderate, that's what I call it," said Lord Caterham. He spoke in a gentle, plaintive voice and seemed pleased with the adjective he had found. "Yes, distinctly i...

THE MAN IN THE ROAD "Father," said Bundle, opening the door of Lord Caterham's special sanctum and putting her head in, "I'm going up to town in the Hispano. I can't stand the mon...

SEVEN DIALS AGAIN Bundle stared at him. And very slowly the world, which for the last three quarters of an hour had been upside down, shifted till it stood once more the right way...

BUNDLE PAYS A CALL Getting hold of Bill presented few difficulties. Bundle motored up to town on the following morning--this time without adventures by the way--and rang him up. B...

VISITORS FOR JIMMY We must at this point go back to some twenty minutes earlier. To a moment when Jimmy Thesiger, emerging from the mists of sleep, was conscious of a familiar voi...

PLANS Jimmy's words lifted the discussion at once into a more practical sphere. "All things considered," he said, "we haven't got much to go on. In fact, just the words Seven Dia...

BUNDLE VISITS SCOTLAND YARD Now it may be said at once that in the foregoing conversation each one of the three participants had, as it were, held something in reserve. That "Nobo...

DINNER WITH BILL Bundle set out to keep her appointment with Bill on the following evening full of expectation. Bill greeted her with every sign of elation. "Bill really _is_ ra...

INQUIRIES AT CHIMNEYS Bundle's temperament was certainly not inherited from her father, whose prevailing characteristic was a wholly amiable inertia. As Bill Eversleigh had very j...

THE SEVEN DIALS CLUB Bundle reached 14 Hunstanton Street about 6 P.M. At that hour, as she rightly judged, the Seven Dials Club was a dead spot. Bundle's aim was a simple one. She...

THE MEETING OF THE SEVEN DIALS It would be as well to pass over the sufferings of the next four hours as quickly as possible. Bundle found her position extremely cramped. She had ...

THE INQUEST Bundle reached home about 6 A.M. She was up and dressed by half-past nine, and rang up Jimmy Thesiger on the telephone. The promptitude of his reply somewhat surprise...

THE HOUSE PARTY AT THE ABBEY Bundle drove over to Wyvern Abbey just in time for tea on Friday afternoon. George Lomax came forward to welcome her with considerable _empressement_....

AFTER DINNER George was not a believer in modern innovations. The Abbey was innocent of anything so up to date as central heating. Consequently, when the ladies entered the drawin...

JIMMY'S ADVENTURES Our chronicle must here split into three separate and distinct portions. The night was to prove an eventful one and each of the three persons involved saw it fr...

BUNDLE'S ADVENTURES Bundle Brent was a resourceful girl--she was also a girl of imagination. She had foreseen that Bill, if not Jimmy, would make objections to her participation i...

LORAINE'S ADVENTURES Loraine Wade sat up in bed and switched on the light. It was exactly ten minutes to one. She had gone to bed early--at half-past nine. She possessed the usefu...

THE RECOVERY OF THE FORMULA "Der liebe Gott!" said Herr Eberhard in a whisper. His face had gone chalky white. George turned a face of dignified reproach on Battle. "Is this tr...

THE COUNTESS RADZKY'S STORY The Countess's return to consciousness was very different from that of Jimmy Thesiger. It was more prolonged and infinitely more artistic. Artistic wa...

SUPERINTENDENT BATTLE IN CHARGE It was ten o'clock on the following morning. The sun poured in through the windows of the library, where Superintendent Battle had been at work sin...

BUNDLE WONDERS There was no doubt that Superintendent Battle was taken aback. He fingered his chin thoughtfully. "Sir Oswald is right, Battle," said George. "This is the man. Any...

JIMMY LAYS HIS PLANS Jimmy Thesiger was feeling depressed. Avoiding George, whom he suspected of being ready to tackle him on serious subjects, he stole quietly away after lunch. ...

MAINLY ABOUT GOLF "That friend of yours is a nice girl, Bundle," said Lord Caterham. Loraine had been at Chimneys for nearly a week, and had earned the high opinion of her host--...

NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE Jimmy Thesiger arrived at Letherbury on a sunny autumn afternoon and was greeted affectionately by Lady Coote and with cold dislike by Sir Oswald. Aware of the...

SUSPICIONS It was just on the appointed hour of twelve o'clock that Bundle and Loraine entered the park gates, having left the Hispano at an adjacent garage. Lady Coote greeted t...

SINGULAR BEHAVIOUR OF GEORGE LOMAX "Mr. Lomax is here, my lord." Lord Caterham started violently, for, absorbed in the intricacies of what not to do with the left wrist, he had n...

AN URGENT SUMMONS Loraine, playing with a small and delectable puppy, was somewhat surprised when Bundle rejoined her after an absence of twenty minutes, in a breathless state and...

THE SEVEN DIALS Very slowly Bundle returned to consciousness. She was aware of a dark, spinning blackness, the centre of which was a violent, throbbing ache. Punctuating this were...

BUNDLE IS DUMFOUNDED "That's right," said Battle, as Mosgorovsky leapt up and came round to Bundle. "Get a chair for her. It's been a bit of a shock, I can see." Bundle sank down...

BATTLE EXPLAINS Superintendent Battle settled to explain. He spoke comfortably and cozily. "I didn't suspect him myself for a long time. The first hint of it I had was when I hea...

LORD CATERHAM APPROVES "Father," said Bundle, "I've got to break a piece of news to you. You're going to lose me." "Nonsense," said Lord Caterham. "Don't tell me that you're suff...