Evil Under the Sun (Poirot) [Paperback]

Agatha Christie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 5, 2001 | Series: Poirot

Agatha Christie's exotic seaside mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun! she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

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"You can't go wrong with this one" Books "She springs her secret like a land mine" Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins Pb; Masterpiece ed edition (November 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007119267
• ISBN-13: 978-0007119264
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,690,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of eighty novels and short-story collections over six decades.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Evil Under the Sun is a Hercule Poirot mystery in which the detective discover a murder on the Devon coast, November 21, 2011

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This review is from: Evil Under the Sun (Poirot) (Paperback)

The classic British mystery tradition's doyen of death is Dame Agatha Christie. Evil Under the Sun is a Poirot novel written in 1941. The book is able to hold its own and is a fine representative of Christie's brilliant work.
The Plot: the loci of the action is the Jolly Roger Hotel a resort area on the Devon coast. Hercule Poirot, the retired little Belgian detective, is taking a much needed holiday. However, in Christie's universe there is no escape from murder! The murder victim is the lovely "man-killer" Arlena Marshall. Her husband is Captain Kenneth Marshall. He had earlier been married to a deceased woman who was acquitted of a heinous murder. Living with the Marshalls is Linda the daughter Captain Marshall had with his first wife. Stepdaughter and stepmother do not like one another! Christine Redfern is also believed to be angry at Arlena for seducing her husband Patrick Redfern. Rosamund Darley is a former flame of Captain Marshall. When Arlena is found strangled and found dead on a secluded beach there is no shortage of suspects. Several of the guests at the Jolly Roger Hotel had reason to wish the beautiful woman out of the picture. Whodunit?
As in so many Christie novels,the key to solving who murdered the victim is to examine the past lives of the chief suspects. The book is a fine way to spend a few hours with Hercule Poirot as the reader seeks to match wits with the crime detecting whiz! Enjoy!