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Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)

Agatha Christie

Start date: December 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

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Why we're reading this: Another classic title in our series of Poirot buddy reads.
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Apr 09, 2017 Nanosynergy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-espionage, series, fiction, fiction-1940s, reviewed, british, 2017read

I'm of two minds on this book. I'm a Christie fan and enjoyed the story, but also felt it was a bit thin. Perhaps this is partly the result of binge reading the Poirot series. Maybe I need to consider taking a break from Christie's Poirotiverse to clear the palate with some pithier read and then return. But that's not happening. This book does have an apt title - Evil Under the Sun. It also has Christie's usual finite, ensemble cast of characters with a love triangle, a angsty stepdaughter, an a ...more

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Mar 24, 2019 P. rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The plot plods along until the not at all believable, bespoke end, which puts paid to the tale. Even worse one of the characters whose business is going under [no fault of his own!!] decides to marry a woman with a thriving, successful business which she created from the ground up by herself as long as she gives it ALL up to marry him and live 'in the country' no doubt on huckleberries and moonbeams. 1941. ...more

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Jan 07, 2023 Teri-K rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, zz-2023-my-book-club

A good mystery with plenty of suspects, but it suffers from too many characters. Also, Poirot says at the revelation that he knew who to suspect due to their character, but that seems to me to not be supported by anything but intuition, which doesn't feel like fair play to me. Also, this is pretty anti-feminist, even for Christie. ...more

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