Stars: 5
Review by: MandyApgar
I absolutely love this. It features Christie's greatest strengths - quirky characters placed in exotic settings faced with mystery - in spades and does quite well for setting the stage for a future tentpole character. When Anne Beddingfield, the daughter of a brilliant but impoverished archaeologist, has to earn her living upon her father's passing, she discovers she has a talent for getting into serious trouble. And for being a bit of a smart aleck. Not knowing much what to do, she flails about a little, and one day sees a man assaulted in the tube by a mysterious stranger in a brown suit. Long story short, Anne gets some money which she then blows on a trip to Africa in order to track the man (all the while writing a newspaper column on her search). Encountering the future Christie staple Colonel Race in his youth, and a friend in the form of a bored socialite housewife, she manages to get to the bottom of who the man is and uncovers a gigantic scheme in the process - resulting in her being nearly killed multiple times, falling off a cliff, being caught in the occasional gunfight, and even married!
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