TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christie,Agatha
TI  - The Secret of Chimneys
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Police -- England -- Fiction
KW  - Battle, Superintendent (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2021-05-03; Mark C. Orton, Shaun Mudd and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Secret of Chimneys" by Agatha Christie is a suspenseful detective novel written in the early 20th century. The story introduces the charming Anthony Cade, who finds himself embroiled in a web of intrigue involving royal secrets and political machinations in a fictional Balkan nation known as Herzoslovakia. As he sets off on a journey to deliver a manuscript of memoirs, he stumbles into a world of blackmail, missing persons, and a potential restoration of a monarchy.  At the start of the novel, we meet Anthony Cade while he is working as a tour guide in Africa, where he encounters an old friend, Jimmy McGrath. After a light-hearted exchange, McGrath reveals a plan that involves the delivery of Count Stylptitch's memoirs to a publisher in London, which promises a reward of a thousand pounds. Intrigued, Anthony agrees to take on the task, unaware of the dangerous implications, including confrontation with various factions, including a mysterious former royal and potential assassins. The opening sets the stage for a captivating interplay of romance, adventure, and the classic whodunit elements that Agatha Christie is known for. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65238
ER  -