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| Original Title: | The Man in the Brown Suit |
| ISBN: | 0007151667 (ISBN13: 9780007151660) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Colonel Race #1 |
| Characters: | Anne Beddingfeld, Colonel Race, The Honourable Mrs Suzanne Blair, Sir Eustace Pedler, MP, Guy Pagett, Arthur Minks, Henry Flemming, Mrs Flemming, Lord Nasby, Mrs Caroline James, Harry Rayburn, Rev. Edward Chichester, Nadina (The man in the Brown Suit) |
| Setting: | South Africa Bulawayo(Zimbabwe) Johannesburg,1922(South Africa) …more England United Kingdom …less |
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Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads "17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there-- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as 'The Colonel'....Describe Appertaining To Books The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
| Title | : | The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1) |
| Author | : | Agatha Christie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Agatha Christie Collection |
| Pages | : | Pages: 381 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by HarperCollinspublishers (first published August 22nd 1924) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Detective. European Literature. British Literature |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 76193 Users | 1707 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
Sometimes it's easy to get distracted reading Agatha Christie. You get used to the idea that she's the creator of Poirot, of Marple, even of Tommy and Tuppence. Those characters can almost become more important than the novel itself, and when you read a Christie that doesn't have the distraction of a famous detective creation you can be surprised by just how good Christie can be. To be fair, those other novels with Poirot in are pretty good too but this one struck me that I was just enjoyingBelow average Agatha ChristieReview of Kindle editionPublication date: January 2, 2020Publisher: AmazonClassicsLanguage: EnglishASIN: B07ZH6HD1MAmazon.com Sales Rank: 1552271 pagesThis early Agatha Christie novel was published in 1924 between the introductions of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. It reads as though Christie had not yet hit her stride as a mature mystery author. In fact THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT is not strictly a mystery. Instead, it is a rather tame adventure/thriller/romance
One of Christies earlier novels. Just like most of her stories during the early 1920s, this is more of an adventure thriller than the traditional Whodunnit that youd associate with her.Young Anne Beddingfeld is looking for adventure, when she witnesses what seems to appear as an accidental death on the London Underground it soon leads her travelling to South Africa.I really loved the set up of this novel, it felt so familiar to many of Christies other novels. I was instantly hooked on the
A great read. As always, Christie is a master of the crime/detective genre, managing to make this a fun and exciting romp without decreasing any of the mystery and sense of the sinister. All of the characters had their own charms, but Colonel Race really made the book, even though he seemed to stay in the backdrop a lot of the time. I must say I felt rather sorry for his lack of luck with Anne, but I'm looking forward to revisiting his character in the later books. Anne, although not the most
I savour Agatha Christie in order of her releases. I dont identify ahead what pertains to which series, nor watch any films lest I be wholly surprised by my journey; 90 years after The Man In The Brown Suit, came out. The gift this gives me is that each time I open the front page, it is a treat to discover which heroes shall escort me. Agatha experimented with these first four; three are unrelated. This one has nothing to do with her two famous sleuths. I was blissfully unprepared for that
Before there was Miss Jane Marple and very shortly after the birth of Hercule Poirot, there was Anne Beddingfield, the plucky heroine of The Man in the Brown Suit. Dame Agatha Christie included Hercule Poirot in 45 books and Miss Jane Marple in more than a dozen. Even Tommy and Tuppence Beresford appear in four novels and a collection of short stories. But Jane Beddingfield appears only in The Man in the Brown Suit (although another character in this novel, the debonair Colonel Race, went on to
In the spirit of Read All the Christies, I ordered this after seeing it in someone's feed. Could have been my mood, but I found that it didn't sustain my interest. I've been reading Christie for a long time, so it's not like I opened it with expectations of heart-pumping action. I'd say I gave the first seventy or so pages a solid effort, but it never really caught me. Part of it was definitely as Miriam noted in her review, that of connection with the lead, a young woman who wants 'adventure.'
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