Colonel Race

The colonel Race is a fictitious character appearing in several detective novels of Agatha Christie.

The colonel, whose first name is not revealed in the four novels where it appears, is presented like a man of large stature, brown and is bronzed by the life “with the colonies”, and who does not fail to make lives impression on certain ladies, like Anne Beddingfeld and Suzanne Blair in the maroon complete Man , Sirs, like, in the same novel to sir Eustace Pedler, being able to conceive a certain irritation even points of jealousy in front of its imposing presence.

In 1922, in the maroon complete Man ( the Man in the Brown Follows ), it is presented semi-officially like an agent or ex-agent of the British secret services. It is in addition related to other characters of the novel, under only known heir to Lord Eardsley, recently dead decreased by felt sorrow after his/her son, killed meanwhile with the war, was convinced of an important diamond flight in South Africa.

In 1936, in Charts on table ( Cards one the Table ), where it is known as old of about fifty years, it is astutely gathered by the future victim, Mr. Shaitana, with three other “detectives” (the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, the author of detective novels Ariadne Oliver and superintendant it Battle of Scotland Yard) with a table of Bridge installed in a small smoking-room, while Shaitana smokes quietly in another part near an other bridge table where four criminals are gathered having been enough astute to escape justice.

In 1937, change of scenery for Died on the Nile , where it find Hercule Poirot at the time of a cruising on the Egyptian river, taking part with him in the consecutive investigation in the assassination of a young person and British wealthy heiress.

In 1944, in Murder with the champagne ( Sparkling Cyanide or Remembered Death ), remaining always a little in withdrawal, it takes part, with the inspector Kemp and the young American Anthony Browne, with a consecutive investigation with supposed suicide of Rosemary Barton followed by the murder, one year later, in the same circumstances, of her husband George Barton.

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