the man in the brown suit by agatha christie

Though she realizes, after experiencing a few perilous situations, that real life doesn’t always supply the dashing hero and hairs’-breadth rescue (at one point she even rescues herself), her narrative still throbs with the breathless expectancy and glutinous dialogue of the standard late 19th / early 20th century potboiler (“Don’t tempt me, Anne! Do you realize what I am?”) Though an early work and typical of the period, it all could have been saved by a few knowing winks at the audience (“I know I’m being shamelessly melodramatic here but isn’t it fun?”). Our heroine Anne longs for the kind of perils she sees on the silver screen. And she’s not that much better when she goes romanceish. Half Mystery-Thriller, Half Romantic MelodramaĪ critic once remarked that Christie is 'seldom at her best when she goes thrillerish on you”. This edition includes a biographical afterword. Christie’s engrossing tale is full of intrigue, a complex mystery, and a surprising romance, in one of the famed author’s most entertaining novels. Anne’s detective work takes her on board a ship sailing to South Africa, and soon she is caught up in a deadly mystery of stolen diamonds, bloody murders, kidnapping, government secrets, and violence at every turn.

Anne sees that he has dropped a piece of paper on the ground, and Anne takes the paper, insistent on investigating the matter further. Anne’s suspicions are aroused when a man claiming to be a doctor quickly examines the body, pronounces him dead, and then leaves suddenly.

Anne is searching for an adventure and something exciting to occupy her time when she is witness to the sudden death of a man at Hyde Park Corner tube station when the man falls onto the electrified train track and is killed instantly. The protagonist is Anne Beddingfield, the orphaned daughter of a famous archaeologist, who goes to live with her father’s solicitor and his wife in London. First published in 1924, The Man in the Brown Suit is a thrilling adventure and murder mystery by Agatha Christie.

The man in the brown suit by agatha christie