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Summary: One of Christie's best!
Review: This is one ofthe best Agatha Christie books which does not feature either Poirot or Miss Marple and one of her best overall. The heroine is Anne Beddingfield, daughter of the late Dr. Beddingfield, a respected professor. Anne is young, pretty and yearns for adventure. She gets it in spades courtesy of the nefarious Man in the Brown Suit. The mystery is well plotted (as usual with Christie), the story well-paced and the characters appealing. This is definitely Christie at her best.
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Summary: One of her best
Review: This is probably Christie's most romantic adventure, so you may not care about the whodunit plot so much as you do the people dotting it. Her leading heroine Anne is sympathetic and enjoyable from the beginning and her chemistry with the mysterious title character is the stuff of fine love stories. What with revolutions raging in the background and African scenery and a cache of diamonds and characters in disguise, you definitely won't be bored. Good book to curl up with on cold, dreary rainy afternoons.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY SUPERB
Review: This is the finest of her works. Set with advernture, romance, intrigue, and the usual surprising ending, don;t miss it. You not only get a mystery, you get the finest aspects of fiction in one. BUY THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Christie's lighter side
Review: This was one of Christie's earlier novels, but one of her most entertaining. It's pure brain candy, full of wit and adventure, with an appealing, intelligent heroine of the kind found in P.G. Wodehouse books of this period, and, later on, in the mysteries of Elizabeth Peters. Anne makes some nice points about the difficulties of the usual cinematic methods of freeing oneself when bound and dumped in a cellar. She also eats an extraordinary number of ice-cream sodas and collects native art to interesting effect. Oh, yes, and there are some murders and stolen diamonds involved.An advantage to the light tone, aside from its sheer entertainment value, is that it makes the reader a little more forgiving of Christie's stretches of credibility, which especially in some of her middle period novels can be a bit much. Not that I don't love her novels. But in some there is an almost palpable sense one kind of talent trying to be another...in "Endless Night", for example, she's rather clumsily dealing with the kind of psychological issues that writers like Thomas Harris would take up. This book, however, is Christie at her brightest and most appealing, and shows the facility with plot which would develop into one of the greatest gifts for story-construction that English literature has ever known.
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Summary: Christie's lighter side
Review: This was one of Christie's earlier novels, but one of her most entertaining. It's pure brain candy, full of wit and adventure, with an appealing, intelligent heroine of the kind found in P.G. Wodehouse books of this period, and, later on, in the mysteries of Elizabeth Peters. Anne makes some nice points about the difficulties of the usual cinematic methods of freeing oneself when bound and dumped in a cellar. She also eats an extraordinary number of ice-cream sodas and collects native art to interesting effect. Oh, yes, and there are some murders and stolen diamonds involved. An advantage to the light tone, aside from its sheer entertainment value, is that it makes the reader a little more forgiving of Christie's stretches of credibility, which especially in some of her middle period novels can be a bit much. Not that I don't love her novels. But in some there is an almost palpable sense one kind of talent trying to be another...in "Endless Night", for example, she's rather clumsily dealing with the kind of psychological issues that writers like Thomas Harris would take up. This book, however, is Christie at her brightest and most appealing, and shows the facility with plot which would develop into one of the greatest gifts for story-construction that English literature has ever known.
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Summary: Agatha Christie at her most thrilling...
Review: When dealing with an author with a resume like Agatha Christie's, it can be just a bit difficult for reader's to know what books to skip over and what books to run out and buy immediately. Well, The Man in the Brown Suit is defintely one of the latter. It is a synthesis of all the novel aspects Christie has mastered. With the flurry of suspicious characters, a riveting plot, alluring stranger, nocturnal murder attempts and stolen diamonds, the reader is defintely kept on her toes. Christie creates a wide array of characters in this one; we're given an inexperienced girl out for adventure, the strong, silent man with a secret, a blundering, pompous [behind], a young, rich socialite, and, of course, the man in the brown suit. Filled with wonderful and entertaining subplots, this book flies by, more than the usual page turner. I was introduced to Agatha Christie via And Then There Were None, possibly her most popular novel. I loved it; I didn't see how it could get any better, and I was afraid I'd be dissappointed with any other Christie mysteries. But, not so! This book is definetly as thrilling and suspenceful as And Then There Were None; stop what you're doing right now, and go get this book!
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Summary: Agatha Christie at her most thrilling...
Review: When dealing with an author with a resume like Agatha Christie's, it can be just a bit difficult for reader's to know what books to skip over and what books to run out and buy immediately. Well, The Man in the Brown Suit is defintely one of the latter. It is a synthesis of all the novel aspects Christie has mastered. With the flurry of suspicious characters, a riveting plot, alluring stranger, nocturnal murder attempts and stolen diamonds, the reader is defintely kept on her toes. Christie creates a wide array of characters in this one; we're given an inexperienced girl out for adventure, the strong, silent man with a secret, a blundering, pompous [behind], a young, rich socialite, and, of course, the man in the brown suit. Filled with wonderful and entertaining subplots, this book flies by, more than the usual page turner. I was introduced to Agatha Christie via And Then There Were None, possibly her most popular novel. I loved it; I didn't see how it could get any better, and I was afraid I'd be dissappointed with any other Christie mysteries. But, not so! This book is definetly as thrilling and suspenceful as And Then There Were None; stop what you're doing right now, and go get this book!
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Summary: Amelia Peabody's long lost cousin perhaps?
Review: Young Anne Beddingfeld is trapped in a small English town caring for her father, a world renowned expert in primative man. Within the first 50 pages Anne is orphaned, witnesses an accident/murder on a railway platform, becomes entangled in a nation wide man hunt for the man in the brown suit and departs for South Africa with a ridiculously small sum of money. From there things begin to get exciting. The mystery is fairly laid out with all the clues available, but as always with Christie the plot twists and turns to the end. It is much more of a romance than the rest of Christie's work and does not include either M. Poriot or Miss Marple.
This book was orginally written in 1924, not long after Mysterious Affair at Styles. This 'young orphaned adventuress heroine out to see the world' was a popular theme of the day reflecting the post-war (WWI) increased opportunities for women. What could have been a trite formulistic effort, became in the hands of Christie, an exciting novel that is still a joy to read 80 plus years later. This book is in many ways similiar to the Amelia Peabody series, ie a young woman finds herself suddenly orphaned by the scholar father who treated her more as a housekeeper than daughter, travels to Africa where she meets the love of her life and battles with a master criminal. WARNING a movie of this book was made several years ago and while it is enjoyable in itself it bears very little in common with this book.
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Summary: Amelia Peabody's long lost cousin perhaps?
Review: Young Anne Beddingfeld is trapped in a small English town caring for her father, a world renowned expert in primative man. Within the first 50 pages Anne is orphaned, witnesses an accident/murder on a railway platform, becomes entangled in a nation wide man hunt for the man in the brown suit and departs for South Africa with a ridiculously small sum of money. From there things begin to get exciting. The mystery is fairly laid out with all the clues available, but as always with Christie the plot twists and turns to the end. It is much more of a romance than the rest of Christie's work and does not include either M. Poriot or Miss Marple.
This book was orginally written in 1924, not long after Mysterious Affair at Styles. This 'young orphaned adventuress heroine out to see the world' was a popular theme of the day reflecting the post-war (WWI) increased opportunities for women. What could have been a trite formulistic effort, became in the hands of Christie, an exciting novel that is still a joy to read 80 plus years later. This book is in many ways similiar to the Amelia Peabody series, ie a young woman finds herself suddenly orphaned by the scholar father who treated her more as a housekeeper than daughter, travels to Africa where she meets the love of her life and battles with a master criminal. WARNING a movie of this book was made several years ago and while it is enjoyable in itself it bears very little in common with this book.
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