Murder in the Manor is an omnibus edition of Agatha Christie works published by the Book of the Month Club in 1989[1]. The omnibus is available in hardcover only and consists of three novels which all feature events in a large country house: The Secret of Chimneys, The Seven Dials Mystery and The Murder at Hazelmoor.
This title is not to be confused with Murder at the Manor, another omnibus of Agatha Christie's works.
Blurb on front and back flaps[]
Spend a genteel weekend of intrigue and sus pense with Agatha Christie in these three manor house mysteries, now available in one volume exclusively from the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Join easygoing adventurer Anthony Cade as he tries to unravel The Secret of Chimneys. Chimneys is the gracious estate of the ninth Marquis of Caterham, a place where kings and queens and foreign diplomats meet for long weekends of hunting and more clandestine affairs. Cade soon finds himself trapped in an international conspiracy involving stolen jewels, blackmail, romance ... and murder.
Chimneys is again the setting for murder in The Seven Dials Mystery. Sir Oswald Coote, who has leased Lord Caterham's man- sion, gives a weekend party for a group of "bright young things." Before the weekend is out, young Gerry Wade is found dead. The investigation leads to a mysterious club in Soho, where an exclusive society known as the Seven Dials Club is seeking to trace the thief of a secret scientific formula. In doing so, of course, they unmask the murderer
A snowy winter evening séance, at which the participants are warned of the murder of Captain Trevelyan, opens Murder at Hazelmoor. Retired Major Burnaby, an old friend of Trevelyan's, is sufficiently disturbed by the incident to slog through the blizzard to Trevelyan's Exhampton cottage, where he discovers that "the spirits" weren't lying. The captain's nephew, James Pearson, is arrested on circumstantial evidence. It's up to Pearson's fiancée Emily Trefusis to prove his innocence ... by proving someone else's guilt.
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- ↑ The book does not print the publication date and also does not have an ISBN, and there is surprisingly no Library of Congress catalogue entry. However the 1989 date of publication is fairly well attested, for example, in WorldCat.