The Secret of Chimneys

by Agatha Christie · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 6 · 4,829 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Battle, Superintendent (Fictitious character) — Fiction · Detective and mystery stories · Police — England — Fiction

Words worth knowing: grudgingly · petrol · longingly · misapprehension · complicity · cajole · misjudge · plumber

Anthony Cade Signs on “Gentleman Joe!” “Why, if it isn’t old Jimmy McGrath.” Castle’s Select Tour, represented by seven depressed-looking females and three perspiring males, looked on with considerable interest.

Evidently their Mr. Cade had met an old friend.

They all admired Mr. Cade so much, his tall lean figure, his sun-tanned face, the light-hearted manner with which he settled disputes and cajoled them all into good temper.

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