Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24) in Pick-a-Shelf

Apr 15, 2009 Luann rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, lost-lit, adult, 2009, shelf-a-thon1

Excellent! I love it that Agatha Christie can still surprise me, even with a book I've already read. Although in my defense it has been years and years since I first read it. It seemed the details I remembered to be suspicious of only led me in the wrong direction! :) Dame Christie truly is a master of misdirection!

This is Lost related because it is one of the novels that Sawyer reads on the Island. He is seen reading it when he is approached by Nikki in "Exposé." The edition I've added to my li ...more

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Oct 16, 2016 D.G. rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, reviewed, mystery, favorite-author

This is one of the few books by Christie that I haven't read before but I didn't realize it till the end. Why? Because of the plot's familiarity to Death in the Nile. I know she liked to recycle plots now and then but this was pretty much the same idea dressed up differently.

I was very surprised when at the end, the guy demands for the lady to give up her successful job to marry him and she gives in. I know this was written in the 1940s but I never remember Christie pandering to the expectations ...more

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Mar 05, 2019 Marie (UK) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2019-reading-challenge

Agatha Christie excels again. Set in a Hotel on an island in the South of England which is accessible only when not covered by the tide. A young woman is murdered whilst Poirot is visiting. There are plenty of suspects but all seem to have strong alibis. Like, many Poirot mysteries the Police seem to leap rapidly to the wrong conclusions ignoring the movement of Poirot's little grey cells. There are some interesting twists and turns but it is one of the more obvious of this author's mysteries ...more

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Jul 29, 2008 Catsalive rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

Poirot is sooo clever, well, the plotting is very clever. Aggies are always entertaining so occasionally they must be re-visited. I don't like the bit at the end about a successful woman having to give up her business if she wants to marry her man, but it was first published in 1940 so one must make allowances for the sexist notions of that time, I suppose.

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It was August and the holiday mood ran high at the Jolly Roger Hotel. The rich and the famous were gathered together on the pictur ...more

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