Superintendent Battle: The Seven Dials Mystery
Murdered:
--> Gerry Wade
-was found dead while sleeping
- Most likely he woke up in the middle of the night and drank a glass of water which was beside his bed and was poisoned by it.
Curious Mystery:
- Gerry Wade was a very sound sleeper who would not wake up even with large disturbance.
- The guests in the Lord Caterham decided to play a prank on Gerry Wade, by setting up eight alarm clocks in his room.
- The guest found it surprising that Gerry was still dead sleeping even there were 8 alarms ringing. More so when they found him dead.
The Seven dials?
- 7clocks were lined up in Gerry's room instead of 8. The last one was found thrown out of the window.
- Gerry mentioned it in is his last letter.
- A man was shot, came to Bundle and mentioned about the seven dial and 'Tell Jimmy Thesiger'.
- The 'Seven Dial' could be a place or a club or even a syndicate group.
The Seven dial meeting:
( 7 clock masked people)
No.1 : not present
No. 2: not present
No. 3: a woman with a mole on the back
No. 4: Master of No. 5
No. 5: Elegant man with foreign nationality
No. 6: Mr Mosgorousley, a russian
No. 7: suspected to be non-existence.
Characters:
Pongo-> suggested using alarm clock, left handed
Bill Eversleigh-> suggested to buy a dozen of alarm; all buy one
- likes Countess Radzley
Jimmy Thesiger-> (On the account of the man who was shot, Ronald): Jimmy needed to be informed about the seven dial.
- was involved in Bundle's adventure of investigation
- armed with an automatic pistol
Loraine, Gerry's sister
- was involved in Bundle's investigaion
- picked up a parcel of paper which was dropped from nowhere; spotted by Battle
Mr Mosgorovsky, rather sinister looking
- being identified as the No. 6 in the Seven Dials.
George, a rather dull person
Ronald Devereux,
- was the one who found Gerry Wade dead, suggested that it was a foul play but broke no mention to the coroner.
- was shot
Bundle, the main lead
- thought she ran over a man, Ronald. But the truth was that he was shot.
- initiated the investigation
- went to 7 dial secret meeting room
- eavesdropped the secret conservation- seeing a few people with clock mask
The incident at the house part at the Abbey:
- Loraine heard fighting
- Jimmy was shot in the right arm, fired by a man trying to escape out of the window and climbing down the Ivy
- Jimmy shot first, but only one bullet. The automatic didn't work
- O'rourke was drugged and woke up and found the formula sheet missing
- (It was suspected to be robbery): The thief threw away his pistol even when there was noone pursuing him
- Based on both Loraine and Jimmy's description of the thief-> he was big size and uneducated sounding
- (On Countess Radzky's account): Jimmy was cultured, english gentlemen and she came down to look for a book with an electric torch.
Leads:
- found burnt left hand glove with teethmark
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