The Man in the Brown Suit

Title: The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race, #1)

Score: 5/5

Published in: 1924

Author: Agatha Christie

Date read: 20th April 2025

Genre: Crime, Detective

Comments:
I read this book whilst getting my year 11 classes ready for the their final exams and, as a result, did not dedicate much reading time per day. As a result, I didn’t enjoy much of the first half of this book and it appears that it was because I was reading it in 10-minute stints. Once I broke up for the Easter break, I managed to much bigger chunks at a time and this allowed me to see and enjoy the complexity of the story. I was taken by surprise at the numbers of twists and turns.

This is a great story and when I was reading it, I did not know that one character, Colonel Race, appears in later novels. I already knew that Agatha was a great story writer, that she was very clever and storytellers since her time have to try to make bigger twists/surprises/grand reveals and they very rarely manage to find anything that she has not already done.