Hercule Poirot book 20 · 1941
Evil Under the Sun
At a hotel on an island off the Devon coast, a beautiful actress who causes trouble wherever she goes is found strangled on a beach. Hercule Poirot is on holiday there.
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Book facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Series
- Hercule Poirot, book 20 of 33
- Published
- 1941
- Setting
- Set in London
- Characters charted
- 1
- Chart confidence
- High
Evil Under the Sun on screen
- Evil Under the Sun (1982, film, Cinema). Peter Ustinov returns as Poirot, on holiday at a luxury island hotel where a glamorous guest is found dead.
Who is in Evil Under the Sun
1 recurring or key character from Agatha Christie’s chart.
Lead 1
- Hercule PoirotBelgian detective who relies on his “little grey cells”Also in books by Sophie Hannah