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Chimneys is a play by crime writer Agatha Christie and is based upon her own 1925 novel The Secret of Chimneys. The play was written in 1931 and was due to open at the Embassy Theatre in Swiss Cottage in December of that year. One year previously Black Coffee Christie’s first performed stage play had opened at the same theatre.As was the law at the time the play was vetted by the Lord Chamberlain’s Office and passed for performance.