A review by _matthewdon_
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

2.0

This had all the makings of a three-star book (due to its readability but disengaging and forgettable nature), but its ridiculously infuriating conclusion, which sees the adventurous young heroine Anne Beddingfield uncharacteristically drop everything she had set out for in order to live her days out on a remote island with a tanned, suspected psycho killer, is literally the most soapy, romantic and irritating thing ever and a fact that feels more at home in a Mills and Boon paperback than an Agatha Christie thriller. I get that books published in early 1920's Britain are going to have British, 1920's sensibilities but it still annoys me and renders what could have been a wonderful Agatha Christie stand-alone novella dated and frankly unreadable. Shame; I was looking forward to adventures with Suzanne Blair and Anne.