Delicious Death

UK

John Lane (The Bodley Head), London, Aug. 1924

London Evening News, Nov. 1923 - Jan. 1924 as 'Anne the Adventurous'

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1924

The Blue Book Magazine, Sep.-Nov. 1924

Plot

Pretty, young Anne came to London for adventure. She found it immediately - on the platform of Hyde Park Corner tube station, where a thin man, reeking of mothballs, lost his balance and was electrocuted on the rails.
The Scotland Yard verdict was accidental death. But Anne was not satisfied. After all, who was the man in a brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: '17-122 Kilmorden Castle'?

Characters

Anne Beddingfeld, Madame Nadina, L. B. Carton, Sir Eustace Pedler, Guy Pagett, Harry Rayburn, Miss Pettigrew, Lord Nasby, Hon. Mrs. Clarence Blair (Suzanne), Colonel Race, Rev. Edward Chichester, Sir Lawrence Eardsley, John Harold Eardsley, Harry Lucas, 'Colonel', 'Man in the Brown Suit'

Emily, Miss Emery, Anita Gruenberg, Caroline James, Jane, Jarvis, Jeanne, Schwart, George, John James, General Smuts, Ned, Count Sergius Paulovitch, Batani, Professor Peterson, Hon. Mr. Clarence Blair, Mr. Flemming, Mrs. Flemming, Charles Beddingfeld, Augustus Milray, Detective Insp. Meadows, Reeves, Tylman Roos, Marquis of Loamsley, Mrs. de Castina, Crippen, Mrs. Grey, Mr. Raffini, Mrs. Raffini, Harry Parker, Arthur Minks

Films & TV

The Man in the Brown Suit, US, 1989

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