Moreover, a jealous wife, for whom everyone felt sorry. Her husband became the main suspect there was a step-daughter who disguised her hatred of her glamorous stepmother and a priest obsessed with evil. Poirot was the last person to see her alive. Less than seventy-two hours later the ex-actress was found strangled at Pixy Cove. On the contrary, murmurs of disapproval emanated from the women. Her arrival created a flurry of excitement among the male guests. In the words of Reverend Stephen Lane, she was a “scarlet-haired woman, a whore of Babylon”. 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 one year later. Evil Under the Sun is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and 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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