And Then There Were 63: The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is about as close as an Agatha Christie novel gets to an episode of "The Love Boat," and in some ways it gets kind of close! Climb aboard as we journey from England to South Africa with our plucky heroine Anne Beddingfeld, getting embroiled in murder, diamonds, espionage, and of course romance along the way.... Are there all sorts of troubling implications in this rollicking adventure of both the gender and race relations variety? Of course! Let's try untangling it together.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast All About Agatha, in which we read and rank all 66 of her novels.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Brobeck.
0:17.0	And I'm Kemper Donovan.
0:18.0	And this week we are tackling the Man in the Brown suit.
0:22.0	First published in the UK by of course the
0:25.0	Bodley head at her publisher at the time August 22nd 1924 and by Dodd-Beed in the
0:31.0	US later in the same year.
0:33.7	It is yet another one of her thrillers,
0:35.9	much like we saw with a secret adversaries.
0:38.6	Definitely not a whodunit.
0:40.6	That's for.
0:40.9	Definitely not.
0:45.3	But it is a murder mystery like like the secret adversary there is much more of a central murder in it too. Right and the
0:50.8	argument I think that we can make up front is that the murder, while it does play a central role in setting off events, is ultimately not central at all to the plot of the novel.
1:02.0	It's more of an inciting incident, the plot of the novel. It's more of an inciting incident.
1:03.7	The heroine of this story is a young woman
1:06.8	named Anne Bettingfeld.
1:08.9	Anne is kind of a, she's kind of bored
1:12.1	at the beginning of the story. very bored my take on her is that
1:16.4	she is essentially Bell and Beauty and the Beast she is surrounded by boring people and
1:22.1	boring things and she wants more out of her life. It's a quiet village every day like the one before.
1:38.0	Little town,
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