Suit was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on 16 July 2007, and, on 3 December 2007 was adapted by Hughot and illustrated by Bairi (). This was translated from the edition first published in France by Emmanuel Proust éditions in 2005 under the title of L'Homme au complet marron. Publication history The first UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. 1924, John Lane (The Bodley Head), 22 August 1924, Hardcover, 312 pp 1924, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1924, Hardcover, 275 pp 1949, Dell Books (New York), 1949, Paperback, (Dell number 319 [mapback]), 223 pp 1953, Pan Books, 1953, Paperback, (Pan number 250), 190 pp 1958, Pan Books, 1958, Paperback, (Great Pan G176) 1978, Panther Books (London), 1978, 192 pp; 1984, Ulverscroft Large Print Edition, Hardcover; 1988, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), 1988, Paperback, 240 pp; 2007, Facsimile of 1924 UK first edition (HarperCollins), 5 November 2007, Hardcover, 312 pp; Following completion in late 1923, The Man in the Brown Suit was first serialised in the London Evening News under the title Anne the Adventurous. It ran in fifty instalments from Thursday, 29 November 1923 to Monday, 28 January 1924. There were slight amendments to the text, either to make sense of the openings of an instalment (e.g. changing "She then..." to "Anne then..."), or omitting small sentences or words. The main change was in the chapter divisions. The published book has 36 chapters whereas the serialisation has only 28 chapters. In her 1977 Autobiography Christie refers to it as Anna the Adventuress. The change from her preferred title was not of her choosing and the newspaper's choice was one that she considered to be "as silly a title as I have ever heard". She raised no objections, however, as the Evening News were paying her £500 (£ in current terms) for the serial rights which she and her family considered an enormous sum. At the suggestion of her first husband Archie, Christie used the money to purchase a grey, bottle-nosed Morris Cowley. She later stated that acquiring her own car ranked with dining at Buckingham Palace as one of the two most exciting incidents in her life. Christie was less pleased with the dustjacket of the book, complaining to the Bodley Head that the illustration, by an unnamed artist, looked as if the incident at the Tube