Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun

1939 • 282 pages

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E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Evil Under the Sun;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.Arlena Stuart, the famous actress, is enjoying—like our favorite Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—a summer holiday on Smugglers’ Island, and will become a common enough sight, sunbathing on the hot sands. Then one azure morning her beautiful bronzed body is discovered in an isolated cove, in the shade. She is dead, strangled. And Poirot, as luckless as ever when he attempts some down-time, will learn in the course of his investigation that nearly all the guests of this exclusive resort have some connection to Arlena. But who had the capacity and the motive to kill her?Daily Telegraph: ‘Christie has never written anything better than Evil Under the Sun, which is detective story writing at its best.’


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44 primary books68 released books

#24 in Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a 69-book series with 45 primary works first released in -2100 with contributions by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser, and Agata Kristi.

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The Kidnapping of Johnny Waverly
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The Million Dollar Bond Robbery: A Short Story

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Another great Poirot story. I especially liked the characters in this one, and there were enough clues for me to actually try to puzzle out the solution (although naturally I was wrong lol).

October 17, 2022

Classic Hercule Poirot. If you know, you know!

5 Stars. Perhaps the greatest literary detective of them all.

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