![]() ![]() ![]() The title is a quotation from the Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6, Verses 1-2: “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men. ![]() The full book was first published in the UK in June 1941 by Collins Crime Club and then subsequently in the US in October the same year. Evil Under the Sun was first serialised in the US in Colliers’ Weekly from December 1940 to February 1941. She would also dedicate her later book, A Caribbean Mystery, to him. The book is dedicated to “John in memory of our last season in Syria.” This was John Rose, who befriended Agatha and her husband Max at an archaeological dig at Ur, in 1928. As usual, if you haven’t read the book yet, don’t worry, I promise not to tell you whodunit! Naturally the local police ask Poirot to assist – and just before they call in Scotland Yard his little grey cells come to the rescue. In which Hercule Poirot is enjoying a quiet holiday in a discreet island off the coast of Devon, when one of his fellow holidaymakers is found strangled on a beach. ![]()
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