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Summary: one of my all time favorites
Review: I'm a huge Agatha Christie nut and this is one of her best. Anyone who liked this (especially the romance side of it) ought to try and find Giant's Bread, one of the 5 or 6 true romance novels (NOT trash, though) she wrote (under a different name, but they're all published now with her real name)
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Summary: Christie Excels In Young Girl as Adventurer Plot
Review: In her fourth novel, Christie continues the young girl as adventurer theme that she began with Tuppence Cowley in "The Secret Adversary." The heroine of this novel is Anne Beddingfeld who will foil yet another "master criminal" plot. Though Poirot is not present in this novel, and Jane Marple has yet to be created, we do meet Colonel Race who appears to be a government trouble-shooter and will reappear in later Christie works, specifically "Death on the Nile," "Cards on the Table," and "Remembered Death." This work is also notable in that Mrs. Christie first dabbles with the device which two years later would make her a household name with the publication of "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." This is an excellent read with a thoroughly likeable heroine, a mysterious man of great secrecy, suspense aplenty, and a South Africa setting which Christie handles with brilliant description and local color.
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Summary: THIS BOOK IS FULL OF STINK
Review: IT WAS A VERY BORING BOOK. MOST OF THE CONTENTS ESPECIALLY THE PAGES WERE FULL OF STINK. THATS ALL.
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Summary: I Didn't Like It
Review: More of an adventure/romance type novel than a mystery. Anne Beddingfield's father conveniently dies, leaving her young, beautiful, and finally free to search for a more exciting destiny than her small village can offer her. Everyone wants to marry her, but Anne chooses to take her father's legacy (87 lbs) and buy a ticket on a ship to Africa.
What follows is a boring, convoluted tale which I found a bit difficult to follow and impossible to believe, as stated facts kept changing at later dates. The solution to the "mystery" when presented, is not plausible, and I found the ending entirely unsatisfactory. The story's main focus is the idiotically reckless and spirited Anne, whose delight in her own witty repartee got on my nerves.
I prefer Miss Marple.
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Summary: For romantics...
Review: Probably the most romantic of the Christie novels I've read. If you love a thriller and also romance this is the book for you. I do actually prefer a departure from the Poirot/Marple books. I only wish she could have written more like this.
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Summary: It is a book you should not miss!
Review: This book is one of her best works. i really like it. Well, i'm not very good in English, but i read its English edition five time before i got its Chinese edition.Eery exciting the book is and it worth reading again and again.Now i have three copy of its English edition,i put one of them at home and bring the other two to my university,so that i can read it again whenever i want.Go and get one!!! It's a book you should not miss!
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Summary: Best of the Non-Poirot/Marple Books
Review: This is my favorite Agatha Christie novel. Although I enjoy the books with Poirot and Marple, several of those without them really stand out--this and Secret of Chimneys in particular. Man in the Brown Suit is an engrossing read. Aside from the usual draws, I really liked the '20s feel and the sense that I was looking firsthand at intrigue in the waning days of Colonialism.
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Summary: Wonderful, it has everything
Review: This is my favourite book of all time. It is sheer escapism. Anne Beddingfeld is the archetypal "intrepid heroine." She stars in a wonderfully warm, "cosy" detective novel, but one that is exciting too - and there are even darker moments to the romance side. Which interestingly doesn't get in the way, but is an integral part of the plot, and not just as character motivation. The characters are pure Christie types, but perhaps with a little more depth than usual. The setting is panoramic - so you get all the different Christie backgrounds. I haven't read Christie's biog or much literary criticism on her. But I can't help feeling there's a lot of her in the heroine, or at least how she would have liked to be. I don't know what Max Mallowan looked like, but I'm sure the Man In the Brown Suit must have resembled someone she'd met. Maybe she once caught the eye of a handsome stranger and based the whole thing on that? Who knows. It's just a great book. I have read it a dozen times, I am reading it again now. It's the only book I really want to "be" inside, I never want it to end.
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Summary: Great escapist reading!
Review: This is one of my favorite Christie books. I wish she'd written more of this genre (adventure/mystery/romance as opposed to straight mystery). There is another that's very similar to this called _They Came to Bagdad_, also of the same type: plucky young heroine, alone in the world, embarks on an adventure. Both books take this formula and infuse it with excitement, wit, and a lot of local color. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Thrilling
Review: This is one of my favorite Christie mysteries. Even though Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are missing, the deductions and suspense are present in abundance. The plot revolves around a young girl who is suddenly without family and longs for adventure. Sure enough, little time passes before she finds it, and romance as well. The book travels from England to north Africa, and through many plot twists and turns. The characters are, as usual in a Christie novel, charming and engaging, and you root for this cunning woman to find the answer to the mystery, as well as love. A must read
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