Arlena, who Major Barry describes as ‘a personification of evil’. But you forget Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun.’Īnd so it turns out, with the discovery of Arlena’s dead body. ‘It is romantic, yes,’ agreed Hercule Poirot. It’s August, the sun is hot, people are enjoying themselves, swimming and sunbathing and yet Poirot remarks that the sight of the recumbent figures on the beach reminds him of the Morgue in Paris, ‘ the bodies – arranged in slabs – like butcher’s meat!’ The other guests remark it’s an unlikely setting for crime but Poirot disagrees: But could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and premeditated altogether? Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun! she had been strangled. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. In Evil Under the Sun Poirot is on holiday in Devon staying in a seaside hotel – a seaside mystery instead of a country house mystery!
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