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Evil Under the Sun

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: David Suchet
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One of Agatha Christie’s most loved mysteries, Evil Under the Sun remains one of her best and most delightfully cryptic murder mysteries ever, read by Poirot himself – David Suchet.

It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled.

Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and premeditated altogether?

©1941 Agatha Christie Limited (P)1941 Chivers Press Ltd; 1941 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, UK; 1941 9 Cosy Crime Fiction Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime Detective

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This is one of my favorites from Ms Christie. David Suchet is amazing as narrator.

Just brilliant, again.

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Fantastic as always, this one keeps you guessing. Who'd have thought someone so beautiful could be susceptible to so much evil? Fantastic, thanks Poirot!

Always a fun adventure.

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Love love LOVED it! David Suchet brilliant as always. very entertaining, have listened to it 3 times over and have loved it more each time.

Loved it

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Having David Sucker act as Poirot is wonderful. You feel immersed in the story. Agatha Christie has all these red herrings and nuances to the plot it makes this Audible great to listen to.

Historical Buff.

Evil under the Sun.

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Delightful. Have already read the book and seen the tv series many times over but still I found myself trying to find extra time between work and family commitments to listen in. David Suchet is pure brilliance in his character renditions. Evil Under the Sun was a whole lot of fun to listen to. Even if you know the ending.

Evil Excellence.

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The narration is really hard to listen to. The accent when the narrator does the Poirot character is really thick and hard to understand . The voices he puts of for the females are jarring. It’s so bad I couldn’t get through the first couple of chapters and had to return the book. Why can’t there be more books read by Hugh Fraser or Emilia Cox?

Great story but I can’t listen to it

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