The Man in the Brown Suit

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Year
1924

Series
Non series

Setting
Travel

Synopsis
Anne Beddingfield holds the clue to a mystery. With the strange scrap of paper she discovered she can forge a link between a diamond robbery, an accidental death, a London tube station – and a murder in a remote country mansion. Anne’s journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step…

Cast of Characters
Colonel Johnny Race. Also: Batani, Anne Beddingfeld, Mrs. Suzanne Blair, L.B. Carton, Mr. and Mrs. Flemming, Anita Grunberg, Mrs. Caroline James, Jeanne, Harry Lucas, Detective-Inspector Meadows, Arthur Minks, Lord Nasby, Guy Pagett, Count Sergius Paulovitch, Sir Eustace Pedler, Miss Pettigrew, Harry Rayburn

Publishing and Dramatization History
Publishing: First published in 1924 by Bodley Head in London, and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. TV: Adapted by CBS Television in 1989, and featured Edward Woodward, Tony Randall, Rue McClanahan and Ken Howard in major roles. The film updated the setting and characters to a contemporary period.

Notes and reviews
The novel contains an unusual structure: narrative chapters are alternated with chapters identified as ‘Extracts from the diary of Sir Eustace, M.P.’ and ‘Anne’s Narrative Resumed’.

Murder method
One electrocution after the victim is pushed onto the Tube rails, one stabbing.
from: http://www.agathachristie.com/booksplays/bookpages/1780.shtml