The man in the Brown Suit

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"Sound Library"--Container.
Read by Emilia Fox.
Anne Beddingfield wants a little adventure in her life, now that her father has died and left her alone in the world. But she gets more than she bargained for when, at the tube station, she sees a man fall onto the track and die. A man dressed in brown, claiming to be a doctor, pronounces him dead, then rushes from the scene, leaving a scrap of paper behind. The police call it an accident, but Anne, decides to investigate on her own. --Container.

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early Christie: romance with the mystery submitted by camelsamba on July 2, 2016, 10:24pm I picked up this audiobook on a bit of a whim: I wanted to read (listen to) an Agatha Christie, and it had the earliest publication date of those on the shelf. I had no idea what I was getting into. For some reason it made me think of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White - probably the combination of romance, societal expectations, and long complicated plot. But the romance also felt so stilted and overwrought at times (starting around chapter 26 or 27) that I got annoyed. Maybe it's the reader? Her voice for Harry is aggravating (and to a lesser extent, the one for Sir Eustace Pedlar).

After I finished it, I read that this was originally serialized as "Anne The Adventurous" and should perhaps be viewed as a satire of the genre, which accounts for the overblown interactions. Had I known that going in, I might have had a different reaction. As it is, I give it 2.5 stars - I didn't quite like it, but "okay" seems a bit low for Dame Agatha Christie.