- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (23 Oct 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006170048
- ISBN-13: 978-0006170044
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 464,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Audio Cassette
As an example of how ingeniously a whodunit might be plotted, and how expertly an audio book might be read, this package could hardly be bettered.
Agatha Christie wrote "Evil Under the Sun" in the early 1940s. It was a time when the second world war had brought widespread misery, pain and austerity. A welcome antidote, therefore was to devise a little budget-priced escapism, to depict a group of guests at a sea-side holiday resort relaxing and exchanging gossip and tittle-tattle as they overlook a beach and the bathers who are using it.
The inane gossip and the lack of suspense in the opening pages might wear your patience, but keep alert! Many significant clues are scattered here.
The subsequent murder and the possible motivation relate mainly to a context of human relationships. A drug smuggling racket is occasionally suggested. Hercule Poirot is present, of course, to lead police, readers, and everybody else to the solution of the mystery, even if he needs to ruin a good pair of shoes and risk seasickness during the hunt.
Addictive and ingenious as her books can be, Agatha Christie's prose and dialogue are not renowned for literary merit. All the more remarkable, therefore, is the contribution of David Suchet. Such is the reading of the great British actor that the banal is transformed into the brilliant, the commonplace into the courtly, and the mediocre into the memorable.
Format:Hardcover
usual poirot story where he proves who the murderer is. on holiday in south of england he manages to get tangled up the investigation of an actress. various suspects and red herrings and a s usual gathers everybody together to reveal the crime in usual poirot story
Format:Paperback
Unlike some other books Christie has written, the plot is easy to understand at the end, and there are clues all along. Hercule Poirot is at his magnificent best, and I personally feel that this is the best novel ever written. The characters are well-developed, and perfectly believable.
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