'She springs her secret like a land mine. 'Hercule Poirot will live on forever because, like Chaplin's Little Tramp (that other immortal in moustache and bowler hat) he has the ability to solve the problems of the world.' - Alan Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of the Flavia de Luce novels An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent 'crime of passion' conceals something much more evil. Peter Ustinov is Hercule Poirot, the master detective, in this Agatha Christie murder mystery film. This story sees him in Devon, Agatha Christies home county, and, of course, among the scantily clad sunbathers, a murdered woman is found. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena's new husband. I remembered this story vaguely in my mind, if not in reality, it was a shorter version of Evil Under the Sun (1941), one of my very favourite Poirot novels and my convictions became stronger, if a little confused, when Poirot warns Mrs. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing.she had been strangled.Įver since Arlena's arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. He retired and moved into a nursing home. His home until a year previous was St Helens in the village of Whiteridge in Surrey, where he also was the vicar. The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. In the novel Evil Under the Sun, The Reverend Stephen Lane stayed at the Jolly Roger Hotel in Devon. The story centres around an apparently simple murder case that eventually. In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the fastidious sleuth is on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light. This feature is definitely present in Agatha Christies Evil Beneath the Sun. Around the same time, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is asked by an insurance company to examine a diamond ring belonging to millionaire industrialist Sir Horace Blatt.

The victim had been strangled and is identified as Alice Ruber. About the Book When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christies Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail. A hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors in England.

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