Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

The Seven Dials Mystery

Index The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 24 January 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [1]

57 relations: Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime, Avon (publisher), Bantam Books, Blurb, Brandy, Brian Wilde, Bundle Brent, Charles Morgan (actor), Chemical formula, Cheryl Campbell, Crime fiction, Detective fiction, Dodd, Mead & Co., Dust jacket, Footman, Handgun, HarperCollins, Harry Andrews, Hedera, Hetty Baynes, Hungary, James Warwick (actor), John Gielgud, Joyce Redman, Leslie Sands, London Weekend Television, Lucy Gutteridge, Mobil, Nightclub, Noel Johnson, Pan Books, Partners in Crime (short story collection), Penguin Books, Plutocracy, Robert Barnard, Roger Sloman, Rula Lenska, Sandor Elès, Scotland Yard, Seven Dials, London, Shilling, Sicilian Mafia, Sixpence (British coin), Superintendent Battle, Terence Alexander, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Mystery of the Blue Train, The New York Times Book Review, The Scotsman, ..., The Secret of Chimneys, The Sittaford Mystery, The Times Literary Supplement, Tony Wharmby, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Weimar Republic, William Collins, Sons. Expand index (7 more) »

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Agatha Christie · See more »

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Disambiguation: for the 2015 TV series with the same title, see Partners in Crime (UK TV series) Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime · See more »

Avon (publisher)

Avon Publications was an American paperback book and comic book publisher.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Avon (publisher) · See more »

Bantam Books

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Bantam Books · See more »

Blurb

A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a creative work.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Blurb · See more »

Brandy

Brandy is a spirit produced by distilling wine.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Brandy · See more »

Brian Wilde

Brian George Wilde (13 June 1927 – 20 March 2008) was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Brian Wilde · See more »

Bundle Brent

Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, is a fictional character of two of the Agatha Christie novels, The Secret of Chimneys (1925) and The Seven Dials Mystery (1929), described as a spirited "it girl".

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Bundle Brent · See more »

Charles Morgan (actor)

Charles Morgan (23 March 1909 – 11 March 1994) was a Welsh actor.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Charles Morgan (actor) · See more »

Chemical formula

A chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, commas and plus (+) and minus (−) signs.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Chemical formula · See more »

Cheryl Campbell

Cheryl Campbell (born 22 May 1949) is an English actor of stage, film and television.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Cheryl Campbell · See more »

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Crime fiction · See more »

Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Detective fiction · See more »

Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Dodd, Mead & Co. · See more »

Dust jacket

The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Dust jacket · See more »

Footman

A footman or footboy is a male domestic worker.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Footman · See more »

Handgun

A handgun is a short-barreled firearm designed to be fired with only one hand.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Handgun · See more »

HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and HarperCollins · See more »

Harry Andrews

Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English actor known for his film portrayals of tough military officers.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Harry Andrews · See more »

Hedera

Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Hedera · See more »

Hetty Baynes

Henrietta Sara Louise Baynes (born 16 August 1956) is an English film, television and theatre actress.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Hetty Baynes · See more »

Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Hungary · See more »

James Warwick (actor)

James Warwick (born 17 November 1947) is an English actor and director, best known for his roles on television and London's West End and New York's Broadway theatre.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and James Warwick (actor) · See more »

John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and John Gielgud · See more »

Joyce Redman

Joyce Olivia Redman (9 December 1915 – 10 May 2012) was an Anglo-Irish actress.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Joyce Redman · See more »

Leslie Sands

Leslie Sands (19 May 1921 – 9 May 2001) was a British actor and writer of TV and film.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Leslie Sands · See more »

London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television (LWT) was the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5.15 pm (7:00 pm until 1982) to Monday mornings at 6:00 am.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and London Weekend Television · See more »

Lucy Gutteridge

Lucy Karima Gutteridge (born 28 November 1956) is an English actress.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Lucy Gutteridge · See more »

Mobil

Mobil, previously known as the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, is a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form a parent company called ExxonMobil. It was previously one of the Seven Sisters which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s until the 1970s.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Mobil · See more »

Nightclub

A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Nightclub · See more »

Noel Johnson

Noel Frank Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Noel Johnson · See more »

Pan Books

Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Pan Books · See more »

Partners in Crime (short story collection)

Partners in Crime is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published by Dodd, Mead and Company in the US in 1929 and in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 16 September of the same year.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Partners in Crime (short story collection) · See more »

Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Penguin Books · See more »

Plutocracy

A plutocracy (πλοῦτος,, 'wealth' + κράτος,, 'rule') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Plutocracy · See more »

Robert Barnard

Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Robert Barnard · See more »

Roger Sloman

Roger Sloman (born 19 May 1946) is an English actor.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Roger Sloman · See more »

Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska (born Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska, 30 September 1947) is an English actress.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Rula Lenska · See more »

Sandor Elès

Sandor Elès (15 June 1936 – 10 September 2002), sometimes credited simply as Sandor Eles, was born as József Sándor Éles He was best known latterly for TV and film work.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Sandor Elès · See more »

Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Scotland Yard · See more »

Seven Dials, London

Seven Dials is a small road junction in Covent Garden in the West End of London where seven streets converge.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Seven Dials, London · See more »

Shilling

The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Shilling · See more »

Sicilian Mafia

The Sicilian Mafia, also known as simply the Mafia and frequently referred to by members as Cosa Nostra (this thing of ours), is a criminal syndicate in Sicily, Italy.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Sicilian Mafia · See more »

Sixpence (British coin)

The sixpence (6d), sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, is a coin that was worth one-fortieth of a pound sterling, or six pence. It was first minted in the reign of Edward VI and circulated until 1980. Following decimalisation in 1971 it had a value of new pence. The coin was made from silver from its introduction in 1551 to 1947, and thereafter in cupronickel. Prior to Decimal Day in 1971 there were 240 pence in one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. Values less than a pound were usually written in shillings and pence, e.g. 42 old pence (p) would be three shillings and sixpence (3/6), often pronounced "three and six". Values of less than a shilling were simply written in terms of pence, e.g. eight pence would be 8d ('d' for denarius).

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Sixpence (British coin) · See more »

Superintendent Battle

Superintendent Battle is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie who appeared in five of her novels.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Superintendent Battle · See more »

Terence Alexander

Terence Joseph Alexander (11 March 1923 – 28 May 2009) was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Terence Alexander · See more »

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company on 19 June 1926.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd · See more »

The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Mystery of the Blue Train · See more »

The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The New York Times Book Review · See more »

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Scotsman · See more »

The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Secret of Chimneys · See more »

The Sittaford Mystery

The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Sittaford Mystery · See more »

The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and The Times Literary Supplement · See more »

Tony Wharmby

Tony Wharmby is an English television director and producer.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Tony Wharmby · See more »

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has been a junior position in the British government since 1782, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs · See more »

Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic (Weimarer Republik) is an unofficial, historical designation for the German state during the years 1919 to 1933.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and Weimar Republic · See more »

William Collins, Sons

William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow.

New!!: The Seven Dials Mystery and William Collins, Sons · See more »

Redirects here:

Seven Dials Mystery.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Dials_Mystery

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »