By midday, she is found dead by Patrick and Brewster while they are rowing. One morning, Arlena heads out for a secret rendezvous at Pixy Cove.

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. 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. Hercule Poirot takes a quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon. The plot has some similarities to the Christie short story “Triangle at Rhodes”, which was first published in the US in This Week magazine in February 1936 and in the UK in issue 545 of the Strand Magazine in May 1936, and included in the collection Murder in the Mews (US title: Dead Man’s Mirror) one year later. When she is murdered during his stay, he finds himself drawn into investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder. During his stay, he notices a young woman who is flirtatious and attractive, but not well liked by a number of guests. The novel features Christie’s detective, Hercule Poirot, who takes a holiday in Devon. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1941 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October of the same year.

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