p 　　Based on a 一九二四 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit was the eighth of Warner Bros Television 三九 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 quot man in the brown suit quot of the title but don 三九 t discount such special guest suspects as Rue McClanahan and Tony Randall p