Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent, eldest daughter of Lord Caterham. She had two sisters, Daisy and Dulcie. She described her late mother as having “got tired of having nothing but girls and died". Her mother "thought someone else could take on the job of providing an heir”.

Bundle’s age is not explicitly given in either novel, but in The Secret of Chimneys, Bundle describes an incident that took place seven years before and says: "One of the footmen told me when I was twelve years old", which makes her 19 years old.

As a child she was "long-legged" and "impish", growing into a “tall, dark” adult with an “attractive boyish face”. She was resourceful, headstrong, vivacious and charming, with sharp, penetrative grey eyes that could be disconcerting to others.

The Brents' seat was Chimneys, a country house based on Abney Hall, Cheshire. The family’s residual links with the Foreign Office, including the presumption, resented by the 9th Marquess, that the house would continue to be available for purposes of state, as it had been when his late brother was in Government.

During a weekend outing hosted by the owner. A murdered prince of a Balkan nation, a missing diamond, and some stolen letters are all sought by different forces. Eileen 'Bundle' Brent is the daughter of the manor owner and in her element as she helps Superintendent Battle make sense of everything.

In ''The Seven Dials Mystery'', Bundle turned to amateur sleuthing after the death of two Foreign Office officials, both house guests of the Coote family, who had been renting Chimneys. She was drawn, with a male companion, to a secret society in the Seven Dials district of London, in effect competing with Superintendent Battle to get to the bottom of a sinister intrigue.

Towards the end of ''The Seven Dials Mystery'', she received two proposals of marriage, the first from George Lomax, a pompous cabinet minister, only five years younger than her father, who was known behind his back as "codders" (alluding to his eyes) and was described incongruously as "His Majesty's permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs". Lomax was duly rejected and Bundle opted instead for Bill Eversleigh (born c. 1900), one of Lomax's junior officials, described four years earlier as "very likeable" with a "pleasantly ugly face". Eversleigh plainly loved Bundle for herself, and he was acceptable to Lord Caterham because he was a scratch golfer.

Also in ''The Seven Dials Mystery'', Bundle told Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, who appeared in both of the Chimneys novels, that he was a "wonderful man" and that she was sorry he was already married.

* The Secret of Chimneys (1925)
* Seven Dials Mystery (1929)

*[https://10littleindians.fandom.com/wiki/Lady_Eileen_%22Bundle%22_Brent Agatha Christie Wiki]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundle_Brent Wikipedia]

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