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The Man in the Brown Suit
By (Author) Agatha Christie
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
4th April 2017
23rd March 2017
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
320
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 19mm
210g
A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South Africa
Pretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electocuted on the rails.
The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied.
After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: 17-122 Kilmorden Castle
The acknowledged queen of detective fiction the world over OBSERVER
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.