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Evil Under the Sun

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Evil Under the Sun	label	Evil Under the Sun
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Evil Under the Sun	comment	A novel by Agatha Christie published in 1941, featuring Hercule Poirot.A quiet holiday at a secluded hotel in Devon is all that Hercule Poirot wants, but amongst his fellow guests is a beautiful and vain woman who, seemingly oblivious to her own husband, revels in the attention of another woman's husband. When she is found strangled by powerful hands, were those hands male?The story has been adapted twice for the screen, firstly as a 1982 film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring Peter Ustinov with an all star cast (that included James Mason, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg and Jane Birkin) and the music of Cole Porter, and secondly as a 2001 episode in the eighth series of Poirot starring David Suchet. It was also adapted into a 2007 PC video game.The 1982 film adaptation has its own work page, while tropes for the 2001 ITV adaptation are listed on the page for the TV series.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_11b01fc7	type	Happy Marriage Charade
Evil Under the Sun / int_11b01fc7	comment	Happy Marriage Charade: Inversion. Christine and Patrick are happily married, but pretend for criminal purposes that their marriage is on the rocks.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_12ffce31	type	Correlation/Causation Gag
Evil Under the Sun / int_12ffce31	comment	Correlation/Causation Gag: Linda does some voodoo magic to kill her stepmother. Later the same day, the stepmother is murdered, and Linda believes it's her fault.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Evil Under the Sun / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun."
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Evil Under the Sun / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Evil Under the Sun / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: This title is taken from Ecclesiastes 6:1.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Evil Under the Sun / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Odell Gardner barely says a word beyond "yes, dear" throughout the novel. The one time he does, he reveals himself to be a surprisingly perceptive and intelligent man.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Evil Under the Sun / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Christine hates being seen as the weak wife of a philandering man, helpless to prevent her husband from falling into the clutches of a man-eating siren. She's anything but weak, and coldly helps her husband commit murder several times.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Evil Under the Sun / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Poirot notes shrewdly that everyone despised Arlena Marshall for being so attractive and took for granted that she was a cold, calculating homewrecker. In reality, she was a victim of her own looks, since she never learned to use anything else to get ahead in life or relate to people, which made her easy to hoodwink and manipulate.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Evil Under the Sun / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Poirot comments that he always reserves his explanations "for the last chapter."
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Evil Under the Sun / int_5424d12d	type	Life of the Party
Evil Under the Sun / int_5424d12d	comment	Life of the Party: Mr. Blatt is an intolerably cheerful man always striving to be the life and soul of a party, and is always put out that people flee him at the first opportunity.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Evil Under the Sun / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: The killer's accomplice tries to do this to Linda.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
Evil Under the Sun / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: Odell Gardner's sole contribution to any conversation supplied by his wife is "yes, darling".
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Evil Under the Sun / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Evil Under the Sun / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: The killer concedes defeat by trying to strangle Poirot.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_807ceed9	type	Outlaw Couple
Evil Under the Sun / int_807ceed9	comment	Outlaw Couple: The Redferns.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Evil Under the Sun / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: Mrs. Gardner.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Evil Under the Sun / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Subverted. While Arlena is disruptive in the community and has personality issues, the worst of her actions are staged by the killer and his accomplice to create a narrative that Arlena was a homewrecker tempting the weak-willed Patrick away from poor helpless Christine, while in reality Patrick and Christine are working together to bait Arlena into their scheme to murder her. On her own, she's just annoying, and Poirot has already realized that her addiction to sex/romance/drama makes her vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation, not liable to perform it on others - she's not intelligent enough.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Evil Under the Sun / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: What everyone assumes Arlena Marshall to be, while the more-experienced Poirot accurately pegs her as a female Manchild.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
Evil Under the Sun / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: Yet another one for Poirot.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Evil Under the Sun / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The murderer/s not only rely on synchronizing their movements according to a very precise schedule, but also arrange for the body to be "discovered" before the actual murder takes place, while the unsuspecting intended victim is hiding nearby. There are a number of ways that could have gone wrong... On the other hand Patrick and Christine have already pulled off a similar scheme once before without a hitch... at least until Poirot comes along
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Evil Under the Sun / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Evil Under the Sun / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: How else is Hercule Poirot going to reveal who did it?
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Evil Under the Sun / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Evil Under the Sun / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Linda believes she has killed Arlena with the use of magic, leaving her vulnerable to Christine's manipulation.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Evil Under the Sun / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: The plot of this story is often compared to Death on the Nile: a situation apparently involving an unscrupulous seductress tempting a susceptible man away from his significant other turns out to be the latter two working together to murder the seductress for her money. The 1982 film doubles down on this by taking Jane Birkin and Maggie Smith, two of the stars of the 1978 Death on the Nile film, and casting them in this story in different parts. There's even more similarity with another Christie short story, "Triangle at Rhodes": the supposed seductress is actually too stupid to be anything more than a victim ("the type of woman whom men care for easily and of whom they easily tire"), the "poor little wife" character was manipulating the entire thing and plotting with her lover to set up the situation, then kill the seductress. The story also uses a critical plot element from the Miss Marple short story "A Christmas Tragedy": The killer fakes an alibi by arranging for the "body" to be discovered before the murder has even been committed. There's also a plot element from the Miss Marple story "The Bloodstained Pavement": a man marries an 'insignificant-type' of young woman without many friends or relatives, takes out a large life insurance policy on her, then murders her with his real wife as his accomplice, focusing on making the wife's death look like it took place at a different time, location, and method than it actually did; this is exactly what Patrick does to Alice Corrigan before the book opens, only the man in this story has done it so many times with the exact same method that the insurance companies catch on and inform the police This isn't a coincidence, either; when Christie thought up a particularly clever or outrageous idea or plot twist, she would often try it out in a short story to make sure it worked before committing a full-length novel to it.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
Evil Under the Sun / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: Christine pretends to have vertigo so nobody will suspect she climbed down the ladder. Emily also claims to have it and is telling the truth. Poirot uses a picnic to test both of them.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Evil Under the Sun / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By murdering Arlena, the killer indirectly improves the situation for her widower Kenneth and his daughter Linda, freeing the former from a marriage that he has long regretted but refused to end.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Evil Under the Sun / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Christine Redfern and Emily Brewster both claim to have a bad head for heights. Poirot tests them both with a group outing to a picnic, involving crossing a narrow plank bridge over running water. Only Emily has trouble getting over while Christine crosses easily, showing that she is lying.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_b9f6cc0a	type	The Bluebeard
Evil Under the Sun / int_b9f6cc0a	comment	The Bluebeard: Patrick Redfern.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_bd0af87b	type	Honorable Marriage Proposal
Evil Under the Sun / int_bd0af87b	comment	Honorable Marriage Proposal: The "incurably chivalrous" Kenneth Marshall made two before the story began: firstly to Linda's future mother who had been falsely accused as a criminal; and after her death to the scandal-ridden Arlena. A variation of the trope in that the infamy suffered by both women was because of something other than loss of virginity. He also quickly fell out of love with Arlena, who was simply a Drama Queen rather than an intelligent woman like his first wife.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_c8490cbe	type	Voodoo Doll
Evil Under the Sun / int_c8490cbe	comment	Voodoo Doll: Linda uses one on Arlena. When Arlena is killed, she blames herself and tries to commit suicide.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_c8f21342	type	Clock Discrepancy
Evil Under the Sun / int_c8f21342	comment	Clock Discrepancy: A watch worn by a witness is deliberately altered to give the murderer an alibi and allow him to stage a fake murder so that the victim appears to have been killed before she really was.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_d298bc9a	type	I Wished You Were Dead
Evil Under the Sun / int_d298bc9a	comment	I Wished You Were Dead: Linda fits this trope very well; however, she not only wishes for Arlena's death, but goes as far as attempting Voodoo to kill her. At the end of the story, Poirot lampshades this trope, assuring her that her attempt at witchcraft had nothing to do with Arlena's demise.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_d4169bcb	type	Fake Alibi
Evil Under the Sun / int_d4169bcb	comment	Fake Alibi: Two people in the boat see a body on a hidden beach. One of these people goes over to the body and says the body is dead, while the other goes for the authorities. Turns out the body was quite alive, and goes away just for the person who stayed with the body to do the actual murder.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_d9587b39	type	Happily Failed Suicide
Evil Under the Sun / int_d9587b39	comment	Happily Failed Suicide: Linda attempts to kill herself because she believes that she murdered Arlena, on account of having attempted voodoo on a wax figure of her on the very morning of the murder.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Evil Under the Sun / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Christine Redfern says she was a teacher at a girl's school, which is true. But as Poirot points out, the idea of a fussy, weak Proper Lady is cultivated by that term. In fact she's a sports teacher, and therefore very physically active.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Evil Under the Sun / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Both Redferns turn out to be murdering, cold-hearted douchebags who will strangle people and encourage others to commit suicide to cover their tracks.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
Evil Under the Sun / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: The killer did this prior to the beginning of the story.
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Evil Under the Sun / int_f88bba7c	type	Detect Evil
Evil Under the Sun / int_f88bba7c	comment	Detect Evil: The Reverend is certain Arlena is the focus of great evil. Poirot agrees with him, even if the good reverend is shown to be a trifle obesessed with the whore of Babylon, but Arlena isn't the cause of said evil, she's the victim of it.
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