Evil under the
Sun by Agatha Christie is a detective novel written and published around
1940-41. This novel features the favourite fictitious crime thriller hero
Hercule Poirot.
Those who
aren’t fond of reading crime thrillers must pick up this book to enjoy the
craze around Agatha Christie and the fictitious hero Hercule Poirot, who will
definitely pique interest to read further books of her.
Talking about
the hero Poirot, he is quite detective in his ways, so famous and ridiculously
genius. Poirot is out for a vacation on
a beach resort. After a few happy days, a beautiful actress named Arlena is
found strangulated, surely a victim of premeditated murder. Out on the vacation
there are a plenty of characters available thus the task of filtering clues and
getting to the destination becomes treacherous for this genius. Arlena’s step-daughter
Linda hates her but she isn’t the prime suspect. Too many characters meaning a
whole web of suspects but that’s the beauty of this book. The rest of the novel
is like fitting in the pieces of a big jigsaw puzzle where every simple thing
has some meaning. So, at one point the novel gains a sort of interesting
monotony and the detective’s work remains up to batching up the littered
puzzles. And the sense of mystery slumps. Well, the usage of language covers up
for all the pitfalls.
All the while
readers feel as if they know who it is going to be but like any good murder
mystery should be, the characters turn out to be something else and the whole
thing becomes more layered. This surely is a good read. Fast paced, gripping
with mind blowing twists in the tale.
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