# The Man in the Brown Suit — Character guide

> Key figures in The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie.

- [Anne Beddingfeld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/anne_beddingfeld.md): An impoverished dreamer who trades her dull village life for a dead man's cryptic paper and a one-way ticket into a diamond conspiracy.
- [Sir Eustace Pedler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/sir_eustace_pedler.md): A pompous, work-loathing MP whose empty Marlow house becomes a murder scene and whose African errand turns quietly treacherous.
- [Colonel Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/colonel_race.md): A big-game hunter with a secret-service reputation who watches the shipboard cast too carefully for any of it to be chance.
- [Harry Rayburn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/harry_rayburn.md): Sir Eustace's newest secretary, hired on the strength of a letter that turns out to be blank, and gone before anyone can ask.
- [Suzanne Blair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/suzanne_blair.md): A charming, married, irrepressibly nosy shipboard companion who turns Anne's wild hunches into actual detective work.
- [Guy Pagett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/guy_pagett.md): Sir Eustace's tireless, joyless secretary, whose fourteenth-century-poisoner face and gloomy instincts keep proving uncomfortably right.
- [Mrs. Clarence Blair](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/mrs_clarence_blair.md): Mrs. Blair is one of the smartest women of the day, a paper-famous society figure who commands the ship's attention and coolly deflects the people angling to scrape acquaintance with her. She attaches herself to the stro
- [Nadina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/nadina.md): Nadina is the toast of Paris, bowing under applause in a swirl of blue and orange draperies, yet she tells her visitor plainly that her position is not what it was and that the suspicions of the war years have never died
- [L. B. Carton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/l_b_carton.md): Carton is a physical coward who talks freely once a revolver is produced, admitting he helped engineer the robbery and that Anita Grünberg was his wife before she drifted into a bad lot and the orbit of the Colonel. He a
- [Mr. Chichester](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/mr_chichester.md): A clergyman traveling on the ship who becomes entangled in the mystery.
- [Miss Pettigrew](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/miss_pettigrew.md): A prim and proper spinster traveling to South Africa.
- [Mr. Flemming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/mr_flemming.md): A passenger on the ship who dies under suspicious circumstances.
- [Lord Nasby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/lord_nasby.md): A newspaper proprietor who helps Anne with information.
- [Arthur Minks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/arthur_minks.md): A shady character who appears under multiple aliases.
- [Augustus Milray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/augustus_milray.md): An elderly passenger on the ship with a connection to the case.
- [Detective Inspector Meadows](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/detective_inspector_meadows.md): Scotland Yard detective investigating the tube station death.
- [Professor Beddingfeld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/professor_beddingfeld.md): Anne's deceased father, an archaeologist whose work influences the plot.
- [Mrs. Flemming](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/mrs_flemming.md): Widow of Mr. Flemming, traveling to South Africa.

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