Evil Under the Sun

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Evil Under the Sun (published in 1941) is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot.

Contents

1 Plot introduction
2 Plot summary
3 Characters in \"Evil Under the Sun\"
4 Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
5 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Plot introduction

The novel continued in the vein of Christie's earlier successes portraying the idle rich in a holiday setting.

Plot summary

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The book was set in an exclusive hotel on the English seaside, whose guests include a glamorous actress who is shortly murdered. And Poirot, staying on the island, soon learns that nearly all of the guests had a connection to her, and most of them had ample motive for the murder.

Arlena Marshall attracted as many suitors as she did enemies, making it especially difficult for the tireless Hercule Poirot to solve her gruesome murder.

Characters in \"Evil Under the Sun\"

Hercule Poirot – the Belgian detective
Arlena Marshall – a glamorous actress, the victim

Spoilers end here.

Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science

In the 1982 film, the setting is moved to a secluded resort frequented by the rich and famous in the Adriatic Sea (the action was in fact filmed in Majorca, Spain).

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

Evil Under the Sun (1982), starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot
Evil Under the Sun (2001), starring David Suchet as Poirot

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot \| Miss Marple \| Tommy and Tuppence \| Ariadne Oliver \| Arthur Hastings \| Chief Inspector Japp
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles \| The Secret Adversary \| Murder on the Links \| The Man in the Brown Suit \| The Secret of Chimneys \| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd \| The Big Four \| The Mystery of the Blue Train \| The Seven Dials Mystery \| The Murder at the Vicarage \| The Sittaford Mystery \| Peril at End House \| Lord Edgware Dies \| Murder on the Orient Express \| Three Act Tragedy \| Why Didn't They Ask Evans? \| Death in the Clouds \| The A.B.C. Murders \| Murder in Mesopotamia \| Cards on the Table \| Death on the Nile \| Dumb Witness \| Appointment with Death \| And Then There Were None \| Murder is Easy \| Hercule Poirot's Christmas \| Sad Cypress \| Evil Under the Sun \| N or M? \| One, Two, Buckle My Shoe \| The Body in the Library \| Five Little Pigs \| The Moving Finger \| Towards Zero \| Sparkling Cyanide \| Death Comes as the End \| The Hollow \| Taken at the Flood \| Crooked House \| A Murder is Announced \| They Came to Baghdad \| Mrs McGinty's Dead \| They Do It with Mirrors \| A Pocket Full of Rye \| After the Funeral \| Hickory Dickory Dock \| Destination Unknown \| Dead Man's Folly \| 4.50 From Paddington \| Ordeal by Innocence \| Cat Among the Pigeons \| The Pale Horse \| The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side \| The Clocks \| A Caribbean Mystery \| At Bertram's Hotel \| Third Girl \| Endless Night \| By The Pricking of My Thumbs \| Hallowe'en Party \| Passenger to Frankfurt \| Nemesis \| Elephants Can Remember \| Postern of Fate \| Curtain \| Sleeping Murder
as Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread \| Unfinished Portrait \| Absent in the Spring \| The Rose and the Yew Tree \| A Daughter's a Daughter \| The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates \| Partners in Crime \| The Mysterious Mr. Quin \| The Hound of Death \| The Thirteen Problems \| Parker Pyne Investigates \| The Listerdale Mystery \| Murder in the Mews \| The Regatta Mystery \| The Labours of Hercules \| Poirot's Early Cases
Plays: Akhnaton \| The Mousetrap \| Witness for the Prosecution \| Verdict \| Rule of Three \| Fiddlers Three

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