![]() Like The Secret Adversary, The Man in the Brown Suitis less a novel of pure detection than it is a thriller typical of its period. The plot involves an agent provocateur who wants to retire, and has eliminated his former agents. Later chapters are set in Cape Town, Bulawayo, and on a fictional island in the Zambezi. The setting for the early chapters is London. ![]() ![]() There is a murder in England the next day, and the murderer attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape Town. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.Īnne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. The character Colonel Race is introduced in this novel. ![]() The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer 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. ![]()
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