Dover Mystery Classics The Man in the Brown Suit, (Paperback)

from Condorena

This is the first non series that Christie wrote. Published in 1924 it takes place in 1920. A feisty young girl raised in a sheltered way catering to her scholarly father has the whole world before her after her father dies but she has made no plans until she is present at the death of a man who ...

from antiquary

I bought this because for many years I had owned my mother's French translation (see next entry) and been too lazy to read it. (I read French slowly at best.) It is one of Christie's non-series (orr at least, outside her major series) novels which. like several others (They Came to Baghdad, Desti...

from jimgysin

In another early Christie outing, we get yet another effort that is as much a thriller as it is a detective story or mystery. It's the only canon appearance of Anne Beddingfield, a young English woman who, after her father's death, gives in to her desire to seek adventure. In her case, it starts ...

from mirihawk

This was a well-written book of its age and type (it was written in the 1920s), with just a few places where one grinds one's teeth at the ideas about female psychology back in the dark ages. (The heroine actually tells someone that women in love enjoy doing things they dislike if the man they lo...

from nsenger

The Man in the Brown Suit is a mystery novel, but it also reads like a grand adventure. There's a murder to be solved for sure, but there's also espionage, a perilous sea voyage, diamond smuggling, kidnapping, a journey across Africa, and romance. Looking back, I'm amazed at how much Agatha Chris...