Little did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger.

As events unfold, the combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Sûreté gradually converge on Chimneys, the great country estate that hides an amazing secret....

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7 hours and 48 minutes
Author

Agatha Christie
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Hugh Fraser
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July 3, 2012
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English
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HarperAudio
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B008GZWAIQ
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	7 hours and 48 minutes
Author	Agatha Christie
Narrator	Hugh Fraser
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	July 03, 2012
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B008GZWAIQ
Best Sellers Rank	#39,984 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #331 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #1,587 in Crime Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #1,919 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)

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Dickinson lover

A must read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2023

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I loved this book. Never knew she wrote so many other mysteries with new characters. I couldn’t put it down. Loved the ending. One of her best and will now look for others that do not have Marple or Hercule as the main character.
Definitely read this book. Will keep your attention to the end. Am going to keep it and may order paperback so I can keep a hardcopy to reread.
Supposedly there are other books with the inspector as the main character. Will try to find them.
Please read for it won’t disappoint

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sheila

Great Agatha Christie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2023

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I am an Agatha fan! This book does not disappoint. Superintendent Battle is all Agatha. So many twists and turns, with a surprising ending. All Agatha Christie fans will love this book! I plan to read the next in the series.

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Zanner

Amusing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2023

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It was confusing and well, confounding! In the end it was all as it should be. Sound a bit mysterious? So is this book!

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 4, 2023

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My favorite Agatha Christie book. I love rereading this one and I never get tired of the characters. Anthony Cade and Virginia Revel and Bundle are just the best. Plus poor Lord Caterham, and the excellent Superintendent Battle... Perfect.

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Karen E. Sackett

The secret of Chimneys

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2023

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Great story with lots of curves and turns. It was interesting to read the thoughts and views of people during the 1930s. People change…yet remain the same.

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SeAmRe

Love Agatha Christie

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2022

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Always enjoy Agatha Christie stories. This one is a pleasant read. Excellent description of the English countryside and excellent characters.

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Kristen P.

A comfortable read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2022

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I needed to escape the 21rst century and this was the perfect way to do so. The story line is classic Agatha Christie and the characters were a reminder of a culture we've left behind. Perfectly enjoyable - you'll like it.

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stewartbenner

Christie’s fun spy novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2022

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Agatha Christie’s Secret of Chimneys is a fun spin on the spy novel, full of political intrigue, secret codes, missing heirs to the throne, spies, and of course murder. This is the first of two novels featuring some of the same characters, the other being The Seven Dials mystery, though I think this is the superior book. Both novels feature elements of dialogue and characters reminiscent of the works of P.G. Wodehouse. I won’t spoil it by revealing much about the story, and I’m sure others will outline the plot in their reviews. If you are looking for a fun caper type of novel with roaring twenties upper class British slang, this is highly recommended. I give it four stars, very enjoyable, but not among her best work.

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A. W. Wilson

SECRET....Paperback

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 10, 2022

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When you realise the book was written in 1925, hopefully you will understand and forgive the careless racism and style. This remains a rattling good thriller/mystery with a straight talking/square jawed hero (who is also pretty arrogant, and has his own thoughts about "foreigners"), a beautiful mysterious woman, a country house, lots of suspects and a murder. Dated in style, yes, but Christie could write a good novel, and although this isn't perfect it darn nearly is. If you have never read a Christie book (Is there anyone?) this isn't a bad one to start with (It doesn't feature Poirot/Marple/Tuppence - it's a one off).

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Sam I Am

Great Story, Awful Kindle Version

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 1, 2022

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Enjoyed the story. It's of its time and a nice pacy plot. However this is the worst Kindle book I've ever read. Extra characters all over the place. Spaces missing. Punctuation missing. These errors make it very difficult to read. I began reporting content error but gave up after a few pages. This book needs a thorough check.

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James Brydon

A thriller that was great when I read it as a teenager forty years ago, though it hasn't aged well.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 28, 2016

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In my early teens, some forty years ago now, I encountered Agatha Christie’s novels, and, as is perhaps customary with teenage obsession, started working through them, as if driven to complete the set as quickly as possible. One of the first of her books that I read was this one, The Secret of Chimneys, and at the time I thought it was about as good as literature could get.

It features neither Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple (although the recent television adaptation did recast it as one of Miss Marple’s cases), and it isn’t even a true whodunit, being instead a simple thriller, straight out of the John Buchan mould. Certainly all the key ingredients of a boisterous story are there – stolen jewels, beautiful but mysterious women, a stately home and quasi-Balkan intrigue (it was, after all, written just a few years after the end of the First World War when the map of Europe had been redrawn under the auspices of Versailles, and newly-minted states were strewn across the continent) and a handsome, intelligent and boundlessly gallant hero thrown in. Sadly, other clichés of the 1920s shocker are also to the fore, and the book is shot through with casual anti-Semitism manifested through a succession of throwaway remarks from most of the characters.

The story does rattle along, and I could see why I enjoyed it so much at the age of thirteen. Forty years on I found it rather irritating. None of the characters displayed any vestige of realism. Of course, one doesn’t read Agatha Christie for her gritty verisimilitude, but this book also lacked her lightness of touch with regard both to characters and plot. It was one of her ealier books, and she was clearly still getting to grips with the genre.

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Peg the reader

Good story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 19, 2023

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This is a very good story. The writing seems very old fashioned now, and some of the phrases and names used are far too racist to be used in modern day literature. I have given it only four stars because of the poor presentation: VERY bad punctuation and spelling. Whoever prepared/typed/printed it did not do a good job. I can't believe the original manuscript was written like this. The errors do detract from the enjoyment of the story as many sentences have to be read twice to make sense of them.

Kindle Customer

Ok, not one of her best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 6, 2022

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A complicated story involving murder and diplomatic / political issues with a mythical Balkan state. More far fetched than usual and the climax is rather a cliche. Chimneys is the English stately home where much of the action takes place, a picture of a Jacobean mansion would be more appropriate than the one provided.

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