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Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, Dodd, Mead, Hachette Colletions
- Editions
- 120
- Language
- vie, Polish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9788804520276
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“WHEN Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leather-combe Bay, it was thought the height of eccentricity on his part.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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