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Evil Under the Sun

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Christie, Agatha - Evil Under the Sun (1941)

 

Review by Nick Fuller

5/5

Unquestionably one of her three or four best, so absolutely superb. Poirot is in grand form as he investigates the murder by strangling of a beauty at a fashionable beach resort, a murder which may be either the culmination of a romantic triangle or a sequel to two earlier, unsolved murders. Not only is the characterisation extremely good (notably the adolescent stepdaughter of the victim), but the plot is one of those extremely tricky alibi time-juggling puzzles which Christie can do better than anybody else, combined with a neat reversal of the triangle (seen, as always, from the wrong angle).

 

See also http://at-scene-of-crime.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/evil-lies-in-wait.html

Comments (1)

Jon said

at 8:51 am on Jan 27, 2010

Blurb: Hercule Poirot, resplendent in a white deck suit, with a panama hat tilted over his eyes, his moustache magnificently befurled, lay back in a deck chair on a sunny terrace overlooking the bathing beach. Casually his fellow guests at the luxury hotel moved around him, talking, knitting, drying from their bathes, anointing themselves with oil. It was August and the holiday mood ran high; there was laughter among the crowds on the sands, children’s voices from the surf, gay couples climbed on the cliff paths. But, as Agatha Christie’s famous detective says, “there is evil everywhere under the sun”, and before long his languid holiday is disturbed by a more than usually urgent call for his professional aid. No reader can help being fascinated by Poirot’s manner and methods.

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