Evil Under the Sun audiobook

Hercule Poirot is just fun! Agatha Christie is clever and intriguing. I've been fascinated by her stories since I was a teenager. Evil Under the Sun is a great story - not quite her best, but certainly in the top 10. After reading the book, I watched the movie adaption given some of the actors playing the roles. You should read and then watch, too... who doesn't love to compare! This story is good - lots of little twists and turns. The plot is a bit macabre. There are several angles you think it will take. In the end, I was close to figuring it out, but only because I've read hundreds of mysteries at this point. A good start for a new Poirot reader! About Me For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.

This one is really good.

Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot #24), Agatha ChristieEvil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941. Hercule Poirot takes a quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon. He finds that the other hotel guests include: Arlena Marshall, her husband Kenneth, and her step-daughter Linda; Horace Blatt; Major Barry, a retired officer; Rosamund Darnley, a former sweetheart of Kenneth; Patrick Redfern, and his wife Christine, a former teacher; Carrie Gardener, and her husband Odell; Reverend Stephen Lane; and Miss Emily Brewster, an athletic spinster. During the initial part of his stay, Poirot notes that Arlena is a flirtatious woman, who flirts with Patrick much to the fury of his wife, and that her step-daughter hates her. One morning, Arlena heads out for a secret rendezvous at Pixy Cove. By midday, she is found dead by Patrick and Brewster while they are rowing. An examination by the local police surgeon reveals she had been strangled by a man. Both Poirot and the investigating officer, Inspector Colgate, interview the possible suspects about their movements during the morning - Kenneth had been typing letters; the Gardeners had been with Poirot all morning; Rosamund had been reading above Pixy Cove; Blatt had gone sailing; Linda and Christine went to Gull Cove and didn't return until before midday; both Lane and Major Barry were absent from the island. At noon, Christine, Rosamund, Kenneth and Odell all met to play tennis. Poirot learns that Brewster was nearly hit by a bottle during the morning, from one of the guest rooms, while the hotel chambermaid recalls hearing someone running a bath at noon. At a cave within Pixy Cove, Poirot notes smelling perfume that Arlena used within a cave, while police arrest Blatt for smuggling heroin upon finding the drug hidden inside. Poirot later invites everyone to a picnic, which he uses to secretly observe their behaviour and test their vertigo. Following the picnic, Linda attempts suicide with Christine's sleeping pills. Poirot later discovers she felt guilt-ridden, after assuming she killed her step-mother through voodoo. ...عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «شیطان زیر آفتاب»؛ «شرارتی زیر آفتاب»؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هجدهم ماه آگوست سال2011میلادیعنوان: شیطان زیر آفتاب؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: فریدون معمار؛ تهران نشر دبیر‏‫، سال1373؛ در336ص؛ موضوع داستانهای کارآگاهی از نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده20م‬‬عنوان: شرارتی زیر آفتاب؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: مجتبی عبدالله‌ نژاد؛ تهران، نشر هرمس، نشر کتابهای کارآگاه‏‫، سال1390؛ در253ص؛ شابک9789643635749؛ چاپ سوم سال1393؛چکیده داستان «شیطان زیر آفتاب یا شرارتی زیر آفتاب»: «پوآرو» برای بهبود سلامت خویش به تعطیلات رفته، و در هتلی شیک، در جزیره‌ ای در سواحل جنوبی «دِوون»، ساکن شده است؛ ایشان در آنجا، به بررسی مهمانان رنگارنگ هتل، دلمشغول می‌شود، مهمانانی که «روزماری دارنلی»، طراح مد مشهور، و از آشنایان دیرین «پوآرو» نیز، در میان آن‌ها است؛ با رسیدن «کنت مارشال»، و همسر جوان و زیبایش «آرلنا استوارت»، فضای هتل پرتنش می‌شود؛ «آرلنا» در حضور همه، با یکی از مهمانان، به نام «پاتریک ردفرن»، لاس می‌زند، و به نظر می‌رسد «پاتریک ردفرن» از اینکه حسادت همسرش را، تا مرز جنون تحریک کند، لذت می‌برد؛ آنگاه که جسد «آرلنا»، در ساحل یافته می‌شود، «پوآرو» بازجویی از مهمانان هتل را، آغاز می‌کند؛ از دیدگاه تیزبین «پوارو»، چندین تن از مهمانان، به روشنی در دل خویش، خواستار کشته شدن «آرلنا» بوده‌ اند، از همسر آرام او «کنت»، و دختر بداخلاقش گرفته، تا «کریستین ردفرن» حسود، و کشیشی دارای مشکلات روانی به نام «استیون لین»، همه در فهرست گمان ایشان هستند؛ «پوآرو» با یاری «سربازرس جپ»، «کاپیتان هیستینگز» و خانم «لمون»، به تدریج، مکان حضور تک‌ تک مظنونین را در زمان روی دادن قتل کشف می‌کند؛ در این داستان، «پوآرو» با نگاه تیزبین خود، و با دانش ژرفی که از ذات انسانی دارد، از یکی از پیچیده‌ ترین پرونده‌ های دوران کوشش حرفه‌ ای خود رمزگشایی می‌کندتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 20/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 26/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Even on a holiday Poirot finds himself in middle of a murder mystery. It appears that it is destined that this Belgian cannot have a peaceful holiday! The plot is brilliant for the way in which the woman is murdered and alibi for the culprit. Unlike other Poirot novels, there are three strong suspects and when at the end with a flourish Poirot unravels the plot and rising to the challenge of the murderer makes him confess, you are left satisfied at the justice delivered. Interesting read

“Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. I'm sorry. I got carried away”--Rev. LanePoirot #23 take place at the Jolly Roger resort. The startling man-magnet of the summer is former actress Arlena Stuart who, soon after things get under way, is found lying face down on the beach. And everyone has had a reason to kill her. Women hate her, especially the wives of men who follow Arlena, drooling. Men like Patrick Redfern, married to poor Christine who has to stand by humiliated while her husband spends all of his time sneaking around with Arlena. So Arlena’s husband has a good reason to kill her, too. Is this a case of turning the tables on a femme fatale? Arlena’s step daughter is studying witchcraft. There’s been others strangled in the area in the past few years. Is it in fact evil that exists under the sun? Fortunately Hercule Poirot is also vacationing at the Jolly Roger, eh wot? What a coincidence! But no joke, there’s a satisfying resolution to this mystery, well done.The quotation I opened with has Rev. Lane focusing on evil, but then there is, not surprisingly, given the title, a lot of musing about evil, even from Poirot. I hadn't seen it very often in Christie. I thought it might have to do with the word coming in fashion around the world because of Hitler (the book was published in 1941). But Christie avoids direct references to politics in her writing, usually. She's writing entertainments. But her commentary on evil is actually a feminist point, which I will only hint at because it is a little spoilerish. She (through Poirot) wants to make a commentary about what people assume about very beautiful people such as Arlena being "bad" (or even evil) because they look or dress in a certain way. I liked that part of the resolution a lot, actually.This is a slightly higher rated Poirot than others on Goodreads, I see, and I agree with that assessment. I liked this one quite a bit!

4.25 stars. I was just recommending this book to a friend in another Agatha Christie thread and noticed that I had only rated this 3 stars. What the heck, self? I’m not really a big Poirot fan, but this was an excellent murder mystery with a particularly intricate and twisty resolution.The setting is an expensive, exclusive vacation resort in Devon, on the coast of southern England. Besides Hercule Poirot, there are only about a dozen guests at the hotel. The victim: one of the hotel guests, a flirtatious newlywed woman who is found dead on an isolated beach in a cove, strangled to death. Whodunnit? There’s a pretty good 1982 movie version of this book starring Peter Ustinov as Poirot.

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 12 :- NOV 20194 STARS

"One arranges very methodically the pieces of the puzzle -one sorts the colours- and then perhaps a piece of one colour that should fit in with -say, the fur rug, fits in instead in a black cat's tail."Yes! This is my Poirot, the one and only. I am so happy could cry. Certainly the best crime novel I've read in a long while. Genius, this is simple genius. I adored the solution to pieces- utterly brilliant. Something -I can't put my finger on what exactly- in the carrying out of the investigation was not 100% to my liking, but whatever it is, it's really minor. This crime deserves all the stars.

This was the second Agatha Christie mystery I read, immediately after The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A beautiful femme fatale murdered on the beach at a resort. It simply blew me away.Of course, many of the common shortcomings of Christie I have noticed later (as I grew older and became more critical) are present in this novel: the excessive reliance on coincidence, too many red herrings, the author's need to pair off couples - but so are her strengths; deft characterisation, sparkling dialogue, breakneck pace and most importantly, the literary sleight of hand which is the equivalent of the magician drawing the rabbit out of the hat ("the hand is quicker than the eye"). Dame Agatha gives us a clue at the very beginning (no, you won't be able to detect it, even after I say this) which seems so obvious once the mystery is revealed. And once Poirot explains everything, we see things from a different angle - and all loose ends are neatly tied up.And this must be one of the most appropriate titles for a mystery.

The book held my attention right from the start, the setting was one of the favorite parts besides the amazing mystery.

Otro libro entrtenidísimo de la siempre genial Agatha Christie. Elegí este título sobre todo por la ambientación que creo que es más que adecuada para esta época, aunque en realidad cualquier título de Agatha Christie es perfectamente disfrutable en cualquier época del año. En cuanto al caso que nos presenta, he estado super perdida desde el principio. Esto no es una novedad, nunca, JAMAS, he conseguido adivinar al culpable en un libro de esta escritora y eso me encanta, me dejo llevar por la historia y el final siempre me deja pasmada. Otra cosa que también disfruto mucho son las reconstrucciones de Poirot (mi detective favorito después de Sherlock Holmes) y ver como todo encaja a la perfección desde el principio.En fin, que lo paso genial leyendo a Agatha Christie y que por suerte aún me quedan un buen montón de libros suyos por leer.