Lady who helps puts a stop to the lettters. Before too long, murders start being committed, and he meets a shrewd elderly He relates that others in the village had received similar anonymous, mean-spirited letters. It was here that they received a poison pen letter suggesting they were lovers Recuperating from his war wounds as a pilot, he and his sister Joanna rented a home in a quiet country village. She meets British Secret Service agent Colonel Race (in his first appearance) and finds love out in South Africa. After spotting the 'Man in the Brown Suit' at the Hyde Park tube station, she becomes a willing participant in anĪdventure that takes her to South Africa. She called herself 'Anna the Adventuress' andĬompared herself to the heroine of the classic film 'The Perils of Pauline'. Anne was the daughter of an eccentric anthropologist. Anne Beddingfeld - The Man in the Brown SuitĪnne is one of two narrators Agatha employs in this early novel of travel and adventure. The narrator ends his story with the natural disaster that befalls both the nun and the doctor, or supposes something else sinister and powerful happened. The narrator tells of meeting this nun who hallucinates, Sister Marie Angelique and a Doctor 1st-Person Narration Anstruther - 'The Hound of Death'Īnstruther narrates his hearing of a mysterious nun from Mr. None of the books are spoiled or ruined in this article. Below is a small list in alphabetical order of the narrators' names, with their mini-bio, and the stories that they narrate. Narrators for Poirot's cases, plus others Agatha used in her books. There are certainly other narrators in Agatha Christie's myseries. He was the 'Doctor Watson' to Poirot, and a vicarious voice for the reader. He narrates in Agatha's first published work, and Hercule Poirot's first story, The MysteriousĪffair at Styles.

The most well-known narrator in Agatha Christie's mysteries is probably Arthur Hastings.

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