# Nadina — The Man in the Brown Suit character guide

> Nadina in The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Madame Nadina, Madame

**First appearance:** 0007-v

## Snapshot

A Russian dancer who conquered Paris, she receives a fellow 'countryman' in her dressing room and speaks no Russian at all — a woman watched, spied upon, and careful.

## Who they are

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 down. She and Count Sergius, compatriots who share not a word of the language, trade coded talk of a chief who plans to retire like any businessman. Her glamour and her unease make her the story's most seductive loose end, a woman whose secrets reach back into the prologue's violence.

## Relationships

### [Colonel Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/colonel_race)

_rivalry_

Colonel Race pursues Nadina as a key suspect in the murder and diamond theft.

### [Anne Beddingfeld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/anne_beddingfeld)

_rivalry_

Anne views Nadina as a dangerous adversary and romantic rival for Harry's attention.

### [Sir Eustace Pedler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/sir_eustace_pedler)

_psychological_

Nadina manipulates Sir Eustace, using her charm to further her own criminal schemes.

### [Harry Rayburn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/harry_rayburn)

_rivalry_

Harry is hunted by Nadina, who is involved in the conspiracy that frames him.

### [Arthur Minks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/arthur_minks)

_professional_

Arthur Minks is a scientist who works with Nadina in her criminal enterprise.

### [Colonel Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/colonel_race)

_rivalry_

Colonel Race pursues Nadina as a key suspect in the murder and diamond theft.

### [Anne Beddingfeld](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/anne_beddingfeld)

_rivalry_

Anne views Nadina as a dangerous adversary and romantic rival for Harry's attention.

### [Sir Eustace Pedler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/sir_eustace_pedler)

_psychological_

Nadina manipulates Sir Eustace, using her charm to further her own criminal schemes.

### [Colonel Race](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/colonel_race)

_rivalry_

Colonel Race pursues Nadina as a key suspect in the murder and diamond theft.

### [Arthur Minks](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/characters/arthur_minks)

_professional_

Arthur Minks is a scientist who works with Nadina in her criminal enterprise.

## In the story

### [The Man in the Brown Suit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/the-man-in-the-brown-suit)

A woman who appears to be connected to the man who died at the tube station.

### [Prologue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/prologue)

The Russian dancer who has double-crossed the Colonel by keeping diamonds from the De Beer heist.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/iv)

The victim identified as Mrs. de Castina, who visited the Mill House with an order from house agents.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/vi)

The foreign woman (Nadina) who was murdered at the Mill House; Mrs. James describes her as dark-haired, very white-faced, and smiling to herself before her death.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/xiv)

Identified as the Russian dancer who booked cabin 71 under the pseudonym Mrs. Grey; suspected of espionage and believed to be the woman murdered at Marlow.

### [XXVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_man_in_the_brown_suit_se/chapters/xxvi)

Referred to as Anita Grünberg; central figure in the diamond theft and murder victim at Mill House.

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