Other editions of book Evil Under the Sun

Fast-paced, value-priced audio adaptations. This Christie classic feature Hercule Poirot, her most popular character. Filled with all the twists and turns Christie is famous for, and sure to please every mystery lover-they have all the crime in half the time! Hercule Poirot is enjoying a well-deserved break on Smugglers' Island, but when glamorous actress Arlena Stuart is found strangled on the beach of a small out-of-the-way cove, Poirot becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. With his clever and methodical questioning he discovers that nearly all the guests have a connection to Arlena. But which of these suspects felt strongly enough about Arlena Stuart to kill her?

When the seductive Arlene Stuart Marshall is found floating face down at a seaside resort, her cuckolded husband is initially suspected, but when Detective Poirot digs deeper into the case, he discovers much more goings-on at the hotel, including drug smuggling, religious mania, mysterious love letters, unsolved previous murders, and voodoo. Read by David Suchet.

Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.

Agatha Christie July 1973 printing. A Hercule Poirot Murder Mystery. Here is the passage from the first page inside the front cover: So many people could have killed her. Was it her proud and reserved husband, who knew she was an adulteress? Or her strange stepdaughter who made voodoo dolls and stuck pins in them? Or the religious fanatic who was tortured by her beauty? Or the young man who was so obviously in love with her? Or any one of the women who had, or thought they had, reasons to wish her dead? "Going to give us a hand, Poirot?" asked Chief Constable Watson. "You would permit it, yes?" "Delighted to have you, my dear fellow." So Hercule Poirot, the estimable Belgian sleuth, interrupted his holiday to work with the local police, and the book "Evil Under the Sun" is an account of one of his most fascinating jobs of detection.

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?