Evil under the Sun

Collins, London, 1941
Dodd Mead, New York, 1941

To John
In memory of our last season in Syria.

Plot

(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)

It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled.

Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime of passion' have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

Characters

Odell Gardener, Myra Gardener, Arlena Marshall, Captain Marshall, Linda Marshall, Patrick Redfern, Christine Redfern, Horace Blatt, Daphne Castle, Hercule Poirot

Movie & TV

[MV] Evil under the Sun, 1982(UK) 117min.

[direct] Guy Hamilton; [script] Anthony Shaffer

[cast] Peter Ustinov(Poirot), Diana Rigg(Arlena Marshall), Roddy McDowall(Rex Brewster), Maggie Smith(Daphne Castle), Jane Birkin(Christine Redfern), Colin Blakely(Sir Horace Blatt), Nicholas Clay(Patrick Redfern), Sylvia Miles(Myra Gardener), James Mason(Odell Gardener), Dennis Quilley(Captain Marshall)

[TV] Evil under the Sun

"Agahta Christie's POIROT VIII", 2001(UK/LWT) 103min.

[direct] Brian Farnham; [script] Anthony Horowitz

[cast] (Series Main-starring) David Suchet(Poirot), Hugh Fraser(Hastings)

[cast] (Co-starring) Tim Meats(Stephen Lane), Tamzin Malleson(Christine Redfern), Michael Higgs(Patrick Redfern), Roger Alborough(Chief Constable Weston), Kevin Moore(Coroner), Louise Delamere(Arlena Stuart), David Mallinson(Kenneth Marshall), Jason Davies(Dominic Hobson), Paul Ready(Bellboy), Lawrence Mc Grandles Jnr(Simon Kelso), Grant Gillespie(Jack Lovett)