这是阿加莎·克里斯蒂唯一一次以生活里的人物为原型创作一个书里的角色,而且是应一位朋友的要求——爵士的秘书一角的原型是阿加莎·克里斯蒂前夫的朋友、邀请阿加莎一家去南非旅行的贝尔彻,在题词中,阿加莎也将本书献给了贝尔彻。本书后来连载在《新闻晚报》上,为阿加莎·克里斯蒂获得一笔不菲的收入,连载时改用了一个俗气的名字:《女冒险家安娜》
Based on a 1924 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit was the eighth of Warner Bros. Television's Christie-inspired TV movies. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as an American tourist in Cairo (with Spain standing in for Egypt). She runs across a mysterious murder, and an odd encounter with a stranger; all this occurs even before she sets foot on a luxury liner with an all-suspect passenger manifest. It is established that the murderer, who is after a cache of valuable diamonds, is an internationally notorious criminal--but which one of the passengers is he (or she)? Maybe the villain romantic lead Simon Dutton, the 'man in the brown suit' of the title...but don't discount such special guest suspects as Rue McClanahan and Tony Randall.