Evil Under the Sun
- 226
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Evil Under the Sun” is a compact Poirot puzzle whose solution is as clever as it is carefully prepared. A murder cuts short the detective’s island holiday, and the suspects are his fellow hotel guests, each to be weighed for motive and opportunity. At just over two hundred pages, in prose that reads with ease, it also works well as a first meeting with Hercule Poirot.
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About the book
Evil Under the Sun is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, 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.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
Full order & progress →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 245 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 63% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 26 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 219 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Evil Under the Sun?
It has 226 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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