#1 – The Secret of Chimneys
Adventurer Anthony Cade agrees to deliver a politician’s memoirs and a set of compromising letters, drawing him into the disputed succession of the fictional Balkan kingdom of Herzoslovakia. At Chimneys, a country house used for political negotiations, a visitor is murdered and a historic jewel remains…
#2 – The Seven Dials Mystery
After a young man dies during a weekend at Chimneys, seven alarm clocks are arranged on his mantelpiece as though a practical joke has become a warning. Bundle Brent pursues the meaning of the Seven Dials and discovers a secret organisation linked to stolen government plans.…
#3 – Murder Is Easy
On a train to London, retired policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets Lavinia Pinkerton, who says that several deaths in her village were murders and that she knows who will be killed next. When she dies before reaching Scotland Yard, Luke travels to Wychwood under an assumed purpose…
#4 – Towards Zero
Tennis player Nevile Strange arranges for his current wife and former wife to stay together at Gull’s Point, the coastal home of Lady Tressilian. Emotional strain, old loyalties and financial dependence accumulate until the elderly hostess is murdered and the evidence appears to identify one obvious…