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The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1)
The newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfield came to London expecting excitement. She didn't expect to find it on the platform of Hyde Park Corner tube station. When a fellow passenger pitches onto the rails and is electrocuted, the 'doctor' on the scene seems intent on searching the victim rather than examining him...
Armed with a single clue, Anne finds herself struggling to unma...more
Armed with a single clue, Anne finds herself struggling to unma...more
Paperback, Agatha Christie Collection, 384 pages
Published
2002
by HarperCollinspublishers
(first published 1924)
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A great read. As always, Christie is a master of the crime/detective genre, managing to make this a fun and exciting romp without decreasing any of the mystery and sense of the sinister.
All of the characters had their own charms, but Colonel Race really made the book, even though he seemed to stay in the backdrop a lot of the time. I must say I felt rather sorry for his lack of luck with Anne, but I'm looking forward to revisiting his character in the later books. Anne, although not the most li...more
All of the characters had their own charms, but Colonel Race really made the book, even though he seemed to stay in the backdrop a lot of the time. I must say I felt rather sorry for his lack of luck with Anne, but I'm looking forward to revisiting his character in the later books. Anne, although not the most li...more
films to knit with - bliss.http://youtu.be/30mSaVjIVH0
Rue McClanahan ... Suzy Blair
Tony Randall ... Rev. Edward Chichester
Edward Woodward ... Sir Eustace Pedler
Stephanie Zimbalist ... Anne Beddingfeld
Ken Howard ... Gordon Race
Nickolas Grace ... Guy Underhill
Simon Dutton ... Harry Lucas
That was fun!
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Christie should have published this as "The Mystery of the Mill House" instead. In any case, it is the bestest, most storied, dense Agatha Christie book I have read so far (it's my 4th one). This is the only one I've read that's not part of a seriees, and so I think I shall stick with the standalone stories from now on.
All characters are pretty believable. What Christie does here that is different from the Poirot and Marple stories, is imbue the book with loads atmosphere. And it works! Granted,...more
All characters are pretty believable. What Christie does here that is different from the Poirot and Marple stories, is imbue the book with loads atmosphere. And it works! Granted,...more
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در دوره ی نوجوانی ما، خواندن آثار پلیسی و جنایی بسیار رایج بود. تمام زنگ تفریح های مدرسه به بحث در مورد آخرین آثار پلیسی چاپ شده می گذشت. "مایک هامر"، "جانی دالر"، کاریل چسمان، و...البته آگاتا کریستی. تقریبن تمامی آثار آگاتا کریستی در آن سال ها توسط مترجمین حرفه ای و غیر حرفه ای به فارسی ترجمه می شد، و در کتاب های کیلویی گوتمبرگ (کیلویی ده تومان) به فروش می رسید. در سینماها هم فیلم های هالیوودی از آثار آگاتا کریستی کم نبودند. همه ی ما مشتری داستان های شب رادیو بودیم که اغلب سری داستان های پلیسی...more
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Esta é uma estória um pouco diferente do habitual para Agatha Christie. Nenhum dos detetives mais comuns nas suas obras está presente e quem se encarrega de desvendar este crime é Anne, uma protagonista impulsiva e determinada. Contudo, achei-a por vezes demasiado ingénua.
Infelizmente o próprio enredo não me convenceu muito. Não se traduziu no típico thriller impossível de pousar que habitualmente associo a esta autora. Por conseguinte, nã...more
Esta é uma estória um pouco diferente do habitual para Agatha Christie. Nenhum dos detetives mais comuns nas suas obras está presente e quem se encarrega de desvendar este crime é Anne, uma protagonista impulsiva e determinada. Contudo, achei-a por vezes demasiado ingénua.
Infelizmente o próprio enredo não me convenceu muito. Não se traduziu no típico thriller impossível de pousar que habitualmente associo a esta autora. Por conseguinte, nã...more
This is, to date, the only Agatha Christie novel I have ever read. I picked it up when I was a teenager and totally fell in love with it.
When Anne Beddingfield's father dies she is suddenly left without a single living relative, hardly any money, and absolutely no idea what to do with herself. When her fathers solicitor (lawyer) offers to take her in (because she is a poor little orphan girl) she jumps at the offer (because he lives in London and she is eager to have adventures.)
Anne soon grows...more
When Anne Beddingfield's father dies she is suddenly left without a single living relative, hardly any money, and absolutely no idea what to do with herself. When her fathers solicitor (lawyer) offers to take her in (because she is a poor little orphan girl) she jumps at the offer (because he lives in London and she is eager to have adventures.)
Anne soon grows...more
While I was reading this mystery, I could not decide if I wanted to shake Dame Christie (which would be most inappropriate) or laugh with her. I can't imagine that the image of women in this book is something that Christie would endorse whole-heartedly.
Anne Beddingfield is one of the most annoying characters that I have ever liked. If I had encountered her in my youth, I might have screamed. I certainly would never have finished the novel. Anne is not a modern woman. Her opinions about the relat...more
Anne Beddingfield is one of the most annoying characters that I have ever liked. If I had encountered her in my youth, I might have screamed. I certainly would never have finished the novel. Anne is not a modern woman. Her opinions about the relat...more
Utter, thrilling, nonsensical fun!
One of her earliest novels, possibly her first foray out of detection and into her crowning weakness, international crime syndicates. I knew exactly what to expect and therefore was completely satisfied.
Although the story was written almost 90 years ago, there really is very little to make it feel so. The constant humorous nudges and winks of Anne Beddingfield longing to be an adventuress ("It doesn't happen like this in The Perils of Pamela", etc) are cheeky en...more
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Agatha Christie terkenal dengan novel-novel detektif seperti Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, dsb. Tapi bukan berarti novel "lepasan" bertema misteri tidak bagus dan ngetop. Malah merupakan seringkali punya daya tarik tersendiri, yang memiliki sentuhan "beda". Salah satunya "Pria Bersetelan Coklat" ini, yang terdiri dari sebagian besar narasi Anne dan beberapa catatan harian Sir Eustace Pedler. Keduanya menggunakan bahasa yang seru dan kocak.
Anne yang penuh semangat, berdarah panas, menggebu-gebu se...more
Anne yang penuh semangat, berdarah panas, menggebu-gebu se...more
While I'm not sure it's exactly fair to say that this is one of my least favorite Christie novels, I'm tempted to say it anyway. Because I just didn't care for this one. The narration was a bit strange to me. Most of the novel is narrated by a young woman whose father has just died, Anne Beddingfeld. She's left with practically nothing except her good looks and charm. There's just something about her that makes everyone want to take care of her and trust her. She by chance witnesses an accident,...more
The heroine of this story is Anne Beddingfield, is a fiesty young woman in the Tuppence Beresford mould. Her father dies leaving her not very well provided for and Anne finds herself living off the kindness of
friends. This is not a situation which suits her, she is an independent spirit and as soon as she gets the first sniff of adventure she's off.
She happens to witness what seems to be an accidental death on the London Underground. Anne suspects it's something more, and believes a note she fin...more
friends. This is not a situation which suits her, she is an independent spirit and as soon as she gets the first sniff of adventure she's off.
She happens to witness what seems to be an accidental death on the London Underground. Anne suspects it's something more, and believes a note she fin...more
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Anne Beddingfeld longs for adventure, like the heroines in her favorite novels. When a stranger falls to his death, she realizes that the man who says he's a doctor is actually riffling through the dead man's pockets...and, as he hurries away, he accidentally drops a cryptic note. The death is ruled an accident, but Anne decides to investigate in hopes of finding her adventure.
The note indicates that something is going to happen on a certain cruise ship that is sailing to South...more
Anne Beddingfeld longs for adventure, like the heroines in her favorite novels. When a stranger falls to his death, she realizes that the man who says he's a doctor is actually riffling through the dead man's pockets...and, as he hurries away, he accidentally drops a cryptic note. The death is ruled an accident, but Anne decides to investigate in hopes of finding her adventure.
The note indicates that something is going to happen on a certain cruise ship that is sailing to South...more
"Enjoyable lark from Agatha Christie follows the trail of Ann Beddingford as she seeks adventure and gets more than she expected when she finds romance, danger, and death.
This is not one of AC's village or ""locked room"" mysteries, rather, it's an adventure and along the way, Agatha paints a fun picture of a plucky flapper and some striking images of travel and the people of South Africa including Table Rock at Cape Town, themajestic and dangerous beauty of Victoria Falls, and Johannesburg--in...more
This is not one of AC's village or ""locked room"" mysteries, rather, it's an adventure and along the way, Agatha paints a fun picture of a plucky flapper and some striking images of travel and the people of South Africa including Table Rock at Cape Town, themajestic and dangerous beauty of Victoria Falls, and Johannesburg--in...more
I enjoy even indifferent Christie, so this was fine, but it really was pretty -- indifferent. There's a likeable heroine and a fast-moving plot, but nothing that sticks with me the way some of her later work does. This early in her career she was still writing a lot of books which are more crime thrillers than the intensely psychological small-group[*] mystery that I really enjoy, and this is one of those. As frequently occurs in her books of the 1920s, labour disputes have nothing to do with ho...more
This is Christie’s fourth published book and one can see a rabid maturation of her writing technique. After returning, in her third book, to a story built around a detective, she goes back in this book to the “romp” style of her second book. This time, however, the romp is executed with much more panache than in the first case. The Man in the Brown Suit has a plot as contrived and coincidence strewn as The Secret Adversary but is more dependent on the cliches and tropes of literature than those...more
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The fourth book Agatha Christie wrote and, to my knowledge, the only one to feature Anne Beddingfield as a detective. This book is rather obscure because of this fact -- it does not feature Poirot or Miss Marple. Still, an interesting read, heavy on political intrigue. It also reveals Christie at her psychoanalytical best. Here are a couple of great passages:
..."I shouldn't dream of marrying anyone unless I was madly in love with them. And of course there is really nothing a woman enjoys so muc...more
..."I shouldn't dream of marrying anyone unless I was madly in love with them. And of course there is really nothing a woman enjoys so muc...more
I don't like to read crime novels because the only thing interesting to me is the beginning and then the end. The middle part is just in the way. I don't try to figure out who did it while reading. I just wanna be told already.
That out of the way, the novel is my first Agatha Christie read. I bought it for 80c in a sale. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought one ever. I have seen a lot of the movies and enjoyed them a lot.
And now I can happily add, that I might just pick up some of her other...more
That out of the way, the novel is my first Agatha Christie read. I bought it for 80c in a sale. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have bought one ever. I have seen a lot of the movies and enjoyed them a lot.
And now I can happily add, that I might just pick up some of her other...more
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Prologue, "Nadina, the Russian dancer who had taken Paris by storm" p1 scoffs when Count Sergius warns her against trying to double-cross the Colonel mastermind with diamonds and blackmail. The main material is narrated by newly orphaned Miss Anne Beddingfeld, who stakes her money on a ship's ticket to South Africa, based on a mothball-permeated scrap of paper from a startled accidental subway suicide, and the diary of Sir Eustace Pedler, entangled with secretaries and a preference for her "liqu...more
When I first read The Man in the Brown Suit, in my teen years, I remember thinking it was very exotic and romantic. Rereading it as an adult, I still found it to be those things but could also see its flaws. First of all, the plot is a bit of a mess. It's very convoluted and far-fetched, and at times, frankly ridiculous. A young orphan girl, Anne Beddingfeld, happens to be in the wrong place at the right time and gets herself involved in a mystery filled with international thieves, a crime organ...more
This is a fairly entertaining tale in the line of diversionary, disposable entertainment. This was Dame Christie's fourth novel, published in 1924, and it suffers from the same faults as her first three novels: generally indistinguishable characters and a rambling plot. The setting, however, was intriguing, if only roughly sketched. Our heroine was clever and apparently very attractive, but I think I only liked her because I spent so much time with her. The villain was fairly interesting, but on...more
Anne Beddingfield takes a murder mystery into her own hands in this story. After the young womens father passes away, she sets sail to South Africa trying to find adventure, and gets alot of clues in discovering who "the man in the brown suit" is. She makes new friends and enemies and in the end finds her calling as a detective.
I found this an interesting read, but the story line was hard to follow. Patience and paying close attention to detail is important in getting the "full effect" of this b...more
I found this an interesting read, but the story line was hard to follow. Patience and paying close attention to detail is important in getting the "full effect" of this b...more
Anne Bedingfield, the adventuress! I read this book in the 6th grade & got hooked to Agatha Christie cozies!
Although at times i found the protagonist really annoying, i couldn't help but like her spirit of adventure & restless longing for action!
The parts I enjoyed the most was Sir Eustace Pedlar's sardonic witticism in relating his trials & tribulations. How could I forget, Guy Paget's stoicism.
The unravelling of the mystery was wonderfully done, made me want to go back in time to K...more
Although at times i found the protagonist really annoying, i couldn't help but like her spirit of adventure & restless longing for action!
The parts I enjoyed the most was Sir Eustace Pedlar's sardonic witticism in relating his trials & tribulations. How could I forget, Guy Paget's stoicism.
The unravelling of the mystery was wonderfully done, made me want to go back in time to K...more
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It would've been much easier to read without the casual racism. Whoops, that was the 1920s! It's still hard to swallow, though. I can't divorce myself from my socialization etc. as a reader, as much as I'd prefer not to judge the author for comparing the "simple native woman" to "no more than a dog" because that was not a big deal to white Westerners in the '20s, right? Even though it makes me want to slap them all and then I get all angry-sobby for Mandela and Lumumba (different country but it'...more
The main character in this novel, Anne Beddingfield, is a down on her luck plucky heroine who finds herself embroiled in an intrigue of international proportions. After her father's untimely death, she decides to search for adventure, and she certainly finds it when a man dies in front of her on a subway platform. Her natural curiosity and a cryptic note soon lead her to board a ship bound for South Africa, where the real adventure begins.
This novel is different from the formula of Christie's P...more
This novel is different from the formula of Christie's P...more
This is one of those mystery novels where I came away from the book having enjoyed the story and all the action and adventure that featured in it, but I'm still not entirely sure what the point of it all was. The culpability of the culprit left me confused although I understood the explanation of how the initial crime was done, but the ending, as so often is the case with Christie's 'international thrillers' left me wondering what the key point of the story actually was. Despite that I enjoyed r...more
كان هذا الكتاب هدية من صديقتي
:)
إن كنت تحب الروايات - البوليسيه
فأنصحك به وإن كنت لا تحب فـ أعطه فرصه
لأجاثا كريستي أسلوب رائع في السرد
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إن كنت تحب الروايات - البوليسيه
فأنصحك به وإن كنت لا تحب فـ أعطه فرصه
لأجاثا كريستي أسلوب رائع في السرد
:)
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Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U.K., as the youngest of three. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880...more
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