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The Seven Dials Mystery is just plain fun

The Seven Dials Mystery - Agatha Christie

This is my third (I think) read of this particular Christie, and I found it to be a lot of fun this time around. I absolutely love Bundle, and George Lomax (Codders) is a hysterically funny, biting caricature of a certain type of British gentleman, puffed up with his own importance and significantly overestimating his importance and intellect. The proposal incident reminds me of Mr. Collins proposing to Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (I suspect that Christie intended that particular comparison).

 

I would love to see a modern, high quality adaptation of both Chimneys and Seven Dials, with a focus on Bundle Brent, who really comes into her own in this particular book. Her high spirits are delightful, but lurking beneath that somewhat dizzy front, there's a smart, capable and interesting woman. I don't think that Bundle will ever be serious, but I could see her doing legitimate war work, probably involving parachuting into occupied France and infiltrating the Nazis, and then hiking her way back to the coast. She's intrepid.

 

Anyway, I've picked my next Christie Comfort Read. I'm fast-fowarding to later in her career, but before the decline really started, when Christie was still writing at the height of her powers, and it's a Poirot.

 

Anybody want to take a guess?