Next, if Poirot’s case lacks its political touch, it is espionage and conspiracy for Christie’s heroines. First and foremost, their individual ‘adventure’ begins by accident, having happened ‘on the spot’ or ‘in the thick of it.’ Yet what happens in the party is more than the young woman has bargained for a secret formula, another incident, sleeping enemies and a secret admirer.Ĭherryl Campbell as Bundle Brent in 1981’s adaptation into a television series.Īmidst the meteoric rise of Hercule Poirot, the emerging power of these fearless female protagonists are most interesting. Bundle decides she must go, for Jimmy Thesiger will be among the guests. Interestingly, the second dead man was also present at Sir Oswald’s party.Īre the deaths of the two young men related? She tells her father the latter occurence, which reminds him about the warning letters George Lomax, a senior politician who lives in an adjoining estate, has received from ‘Seven Dials.’ They are related to a party he will be having the following week. Seven Dials, where did I come across it before? She says in her head. ‘Seven Dials…tell…Jimmy Thesiger…’ says Ronny Devereux before his last breath. Further on, she runs over a man while speeding in her car – or so she thought. The Brents’s stately home had been rented to a steel magnate, Sir Oswald Coote, who then invited seven people for a weekend party.īundle’s curiousity is aroused when she later discovers a letter written by the deceased, which omits the suggestion of his having committed a suicide. ‘They needn’t die in my house,’ her father remarks.Īfter two years abroad, they have come back to Chimneys to find that a young man died from sleeping pill overdose in Bundle’s room. After all, people must die somewhere,’ she responds. ‘I don’t see why you’re so frightfully sensitive about it.
He repeats the adjective in retrospective to his daughter, Bundle. Plot: ‘Inconsiderate, that’s what I call it,’ says Lord Caterham. Motive for Murder: Wealth (A Secret Formula)
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