The Man in the Brown Suit Annotated & Illustrated British Detective Mysteries: The Best Classic Books Of All Time

The murder mystery in which a spirited young woman plays amateur sleuth aboard a luxury cruise ship to South Africa.<br/>Plot<br/>After young Anne Beddingfeld witnesses an accidental death in a London tube station – and the bizarre behavior of a man in a brown suit who flees the scene–she becomes convinced that foul play is at work. A woman is found murdered the next day and the police show no interest in Anne’s theory that the two incidents are connected. Spurred by a cryptic note dropped by the man in brown, Anne impulsively uses all her savings to book passage on a cruise ship heading to South Africa. On the voyage she finds herself at the center of a high-stakes game involving stolen diamonds, high society idlers, a mysteriously attractive young man, and a master criminal and his double-crossing minions.<br/>About author<br/>Agatha Christie is the world’s best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language, and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 novels and a short story collection, as well as 14 plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in history. Two of the characters she created, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the irrepressible and relentless Miss Marple, went on to become world famous detectives. Both have been widely dramatized in feature films and made-for-TV movies. Agatha Christie died in 1976.<br/>From review:<br/>"A capital tale — mystery piled on mystery, incident on incident." — Referee.<br/>"Agatha Christie has written a most entertaining story, excellently conceived and executed." — Morning Post.<br/>This edition is unique due to the Dmitry Mintz, computer-made illustrations, which were not featured in the original edition, making it a must for collectors.