Name: The Man in the Brown Suit
ISBN: 9781662291784

The Man in the Brown Suit

Newly-orphaned Anne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure in London. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! Anne is on the platform at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead, and leaves, dropping a note on his way. Anne picks up the note, which reads "17.1 22 Kilmorden Castle". The next day the newspapers report that a beautiful ballet dancer has been found dead there-- brutally strangled. A fabulous fortune in diamonds has vanished. And now, aboard the luxury liner Kilmorden Castle, mysterious strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her. What are they looking for? Why should they want her dead? Lovely Anne is the last person on earth suited to solve this mystery... and the only one who can! Anne's journey to unravel the mystery takes her as far afield as Africa and the tension mounts with every step... and Anne finds herself struggling to unmask a faceless killer known only as 'The Colonel'....

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SymbioteNov 2020

Standard Ebooks is on the front page at the moment, but unfortunately doesn't have these titles. Would you particularly recommend any of the five they do have:

- Poirot Investigates

- The Secret Adversary

- The Man in the Brown Suit

- The Murder on the Links

- The Mysterious Affair at Styles

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/agatha-christie

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yesenadamNov 2020

I think this prints out title and author of every book:

  curl https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<");printf b[1]} /<name>/{split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<");print " - "b[1]}' | tail -r

The tail -r is to reverse the output, it's otherwise in approximately reverse alphabetical order of author's first name. Output is

  Hadji Murád - Leo Tolstoy
  Pierre and Jean - Guy de Maupassant
  The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne
  The Moon Pool - A. Merritt
  Fables - Aesop
  Poirot Investigates - Agatha Christie 
  The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie ...

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philsnowNov 2020

oh very nice. My machine doesn't have a `tail -r`, but it has `tac`, which I guess does the same thing.

I tweaked your output to put author first, to make sorting work better:

    curl -s https://standardebooks.org/opds/all | awk '/<title>/ {split($0,a,">");split(a[2],b,"<")} /<name>/{split($0,c,">");split(c[2],d,"<");print d[1]" - "b[1]}' | sort

gives something like:

    A. A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
    A. Merritt - The Moon Pool
    Aesop - Fables
    Agatha Christie - Poirot Investigates
    Agatha Christie - The Man in the Brown Suit
    Agatha Christie - The Murder on the Links
    Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
    Agatha Christie - The Secret Adversary
    Aldous Huxley - Antic Hay
    ...

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