The Man in the Brown Suit
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3.3 • 16 Ratings
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
Another title in the ever popular Agatha Christie series.
The suave and debonair Colonel Race must solve a question, not of ‘accidental death or suicide’, but ‘murder or double murder’.
Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her – and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electocuted on the rails.
The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied.
After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: ‘17-122 Kilmorden Castle’?
Reviews
‘The acknowledged queen of detective fiction the world over’ OBSERVER
About the author
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
Customer Reviews
Good story, terrible narration.
The story is decent and interesting, but the narration here is so terrible that it baffles me. Fox is a good actress, but it’s as if there was no one guiding her creative decisions - most characters sound the same, and the emotions and moods of the dialogue are almost completely lacking. Overall, it’s more like a lay-person mindlessly reading the text, rather than it being performed!