The Man in the Brown Suit
- 232
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1989
- On screen
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Our view
“The Man in the Brown Suit” is a light, adventurous early Christie mystery, with a conspiracy and scenes at sea. It is also the novel that introduces Colonel Race. Some readers find the first half hard to follow and lose patience with the impulsive, reckless protagonist, yet find that the story grows more interesting as it goes and that the final quarter upsets their guesses about the culprit.
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About the book
The Man in the Brown Suit is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The character Colonel Race is introduced in this novel.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- FilmThe Man in the Brown SuitIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 170 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 53% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 21 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 149 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Man in the Brown Suit?
It has 232 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
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