His dying words to Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, into the path of whose car he stumbles, are Seven Dials and Tell. But wait, one of the clocks is missing: there are only 7 dials lined up, ticking away on the mantlepiece of his bedroom.Īnother of the young men from the Foreign Office is dead within weeks. The doctor's verdict is that Gerry took an overdose of a sleeping potion. Always late for breakfast, surely even Gerry could not have slept through the eight alarm clocks set to ring one after the other at half past six in the morning. The edition I read was Fontana Paperback 1984, 189 pages, ISBN 0-00-616541-9Ī weekend house party at the fashionable country mansion Chimneys turns to tragedy when Gerry Wade, one of a party of young men employed by the Foreign Office, dies in his sleep. First published in 1929 by William Collins.
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