Synopsis
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 electrocuted 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"?
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Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a British crime writer best known for her detective novels and short stories. According to Guinness World Records, she is the best-selling novelist of all time, her novels having sold over four billion copies and having been translated into more than one hundred languages. The Agatha Award for best mystery and crime writers was named in her honor.
Emilia Fox, an acclaimed and award-winning actress, most notably played the title role in the play Katherine Howard at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and Clara Copperfield in a television movie production of David Copperfield. In 2004 she began playing pathologist Nikki Alexander on the television series Silent Witness. In 2006 she garnered much praise for her role in the independent comedy-drama Cashback.
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Smart, plucky Anne Beddingfeld sees a man die strangely in a London tube station and decides to investigate the mystery herself. When the case points toward South Africa, the orphaned Anne uses her life savings to buy a ticket on an African-bound liner and heads off toward much adventure and intrigue in this delightful 1924 novel. Emilia Fox infuses Anne's voice with a level-headed bravery and uses a mix of British accents and intonations to inform listeners of the social class and personalities of the rest of the large class. An excellent job, marred only by her tendency to make all men speak in a husky whisper. A.C.S. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Reprint, 1972; pages browned; binding tight Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Seller Inventory # BOOKS192078I
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Paperback. Condition: VG/GD++/ND. y 1st Thus, late Imp. Macmillan, 1970-01-01. 1st Thus, late Imp. VG/GD++/ND. Box X37 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 20th.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1953) * Publisher: Pan Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated stiff card covers showing a roll of film, some gems and a bus ticket. Black & white titles to face and to somewhat dished blue spine strip. Minimal shelf wear to edges & some damage to tail of spine. Light creases to front cover. GD++.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Some age darkening to paper throughout and marks to all edges. VG* llustrations: None.* Pages: 190 pp. text. ii pp. ads at rear.* Description:- More adventure than mystery, first published in 1924, The Man In The Brown Suit, is also a standalone novel from Christie in as much as it does not feature her famous detectives. (This was first published in The Evening Post in serialized form as Anna, The Adventurous - perhaps giving a clue as to the type of fun which is to follow!) A young woman, one Anne Beddingfield, arrives in London looking for just that - an adventure. She finds one. Anne is witness to the death of a man in the underground - she becomes sure that it was no accident. There follows the adventures of Anne where she travels far and wide seeking answers with just one clue in her possession.* This is a NEAR VG late impression copy of the 1st thus, with some age & wear reducing it to GD++.* 192 pp. 1970-01-01. n. Seller Inventory # 9950
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Paperback. Condition: near Very Good. Later printing. 4th printing of this mass market paperback edition. Name of ownership on the half-title else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Seller Inventory # 105210
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