The Man In The Brown Suit
| By Agatha Christie | |
| Publisher | Harlequin Romance #337 |
| Release Month | 1955 (US) |
| Harlequin Romance Series # | |
| Preceded by | The Good And The Bad |
| Followed by | District Nurse |
- Author: Agatha Christie
- Publisher: Harlequin Romance #337
- Year: 1955
Book Description
THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT is a remarkably good Christie. The narrator of most of the tale is Anne Beddingfeld, a Professor of Anthropology's attractive and enterprising daughter, who witnesses a fatal accident at a London tube station and is quick to notice some curious features about a man in a brown suit who says he is a doctor. Having secured an interview with a newspaper proprietor, she starts investigating the strange sequel to the mystery - the discovery of a woman's body in a lonely house at Marlowe belonging to Sir Eustace Pedlar, a Member of Parliament. Three clues help her - a smell of moth balls, a scrap of paper with some figures and "Kilmorden Castle" written on it, and an unexposed roll of Kodak film. The trail leads her to South Africa: and travelling on the same ship is Sir Eustace himself, who has been entrusted by a Government department with confidential documents for General Smuts. The voyage is exciting: and on arriving at Cape Town Anne finds herself plunged in further adventures of a most mysterious kind.
