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| 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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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'....Declare Books Toward The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
| 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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The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1), Agatha ChristieThe Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. Orphan Anne Beddingfeld, in search of adventure, follows the clue in a note from the pocket of a murder victim. Her journey takes her on an ocean voyage from London to Africa, and finally to a lost island, on the trail of stolenThe first time I read this early novel by Agatha Christie was in the 1980s. I saw the title listed in the front of one of my Poirot paperbacks and wanted to read it. Back then, with no internet for ebooks or digital library sites, this meant a trek across town to the very small library in my hometown. Of course, they did not have the book. Plenty of Poirot and Marple....but no Brown Suit. I remember having to request an inter-library loan....a waiting period of another week...then another trek
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
It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.My first encounter with Agathie Christie's work was not a disappointment - although, perhaps, it is not one of her most popular books, it was certainly an enjoyable entry into this genre. Think Africa and diamonds and adventure and mystery - welcome to 'The Man in The Brown Suit'. What I liked: ✔-The fact that it was set in South Africa. Everybody's heard the famous
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
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
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