The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

Vacation book #2. I had read that this book was one of the most interesting Christie novels alongside The Murder of Royger Ackroyd.

I generally like the pacing of Christie’s novels and enjoyed Poirot and Miss Marple in the past. This one only had one Christie regular: Colonel Race. He did seem rather dashing in this novel.

The plot was alright. I do not know how I ended up reading two mystery books related to South Africa in one vacation.

The protagonist Anne Beddingfield is fun though her origin story seems slap dash. Then again, I think that’s consistent with most of Christie’s protagonists. I was surprised how she hated some woman she never met rather than the actual man who tried to kill her more than once. She couldn’t stand a woman who pretended to love a man especially her own man in the past, but the guy who tried to kill her was A-Ok. Not a great lesson that.

There is a rather bucolic ending too. All in all, a nice jaunt in Christie’s universe but nothing spectacular.

Read August 10-12, 2017 on Kindle.

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