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Boekverslag Agatha Christie
Evil under the sun
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Datum ingestuurd: | 27 oktober 2003 |
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(1982)1. The main characters
1.1 Other Persons
Arlena Marshall-Stuart: She is a very famous actress and has recently married. She likes to flirt with other men.
Hercule Poirot: he is a very clever Belgian detective with an egg-shaped head and a black moustache. He is also very famous.
1.2 The suspects
Kenneth Marshall: he is the new husband of Arlena.
Linda Marshall: she is the daughter of Kenneth and hates Arlena.
Mr and Mrs Gardener: They are producers and came to the island to ask her to do the new leading role in their next movie. She refused.
Rex Brewster: He is a writer for a New Yorker paper and has written a biography about Arlena which she wouldn’t allow him to publish.
Patrick Redfern: he is married to Christine Redfern. He flirted with Arlena almost all the time.
Christine Redfern: Her character is the opposite from her husband.
Sir Horace Blatt: He had plans to marry Arlena and had bought her a diamond.
2. The Story
Hercule Poirot was asked by an insurance company to take a look at a diamond which was the proparty of Sir Horace Blatt. Poirot notices that it is a copy. In his conversation Horace Blatt tells him that the girl he had bought this diamond is going to ‘Daphne’s Island’. They make an appointment to meet there. When Poirot arrives Arlena, Kenneth and Linda Marshall, Mr. and Mrs Gardener, Rex Brewster, Patrick and Christine Redfern and Daphne Castle are already there. It seems to be a perfect nice holiday but after a few days when Patrick Redfern and Mrs Gardener are making a boat trip they find Arlena murdered on one of the bays. Mrs Gardener is taking the boat back to get some help while Patrick Redfern is waiting there with the corpse. She is strangled and the time of death is set between 10.30 a.m. (when Poirot set her of in a waterbike) and noon (when the body was found). Poirot starts to question everyone. The same morning Horace Blatt has arrived and he has had a conversation with Arlena, seen by Daphne Castle, so the time of death could be narrowed between 11.30 a.m. and noon. It seems that everyone had an alibi. Patrick Redfern and Mrs Gardener where in a boat trip, Kenneth Marshall was answering a letter in his room, Linda Marshall was with Christine Redfern at one of the bays Christine left at noon and Linda went for a swim and left later, Rex Brewster was arriving there at noon on a waterbike. Linda first said that he wasn’t because she hated him. Daphne Castle was taking a walk and from 11.30 a.m. she had a staff meeting. Mr Gardener was in the garden reading a book where Daphne Castle had seen him. Mr Gardener also told Poirot that at 12.15 p.m. someone was taking a bath but no-one admitted having taken one at that time. Rex Brewster told Poirot that someone threw a bottle over the cliff into the sea which nearly hit him. Again no-one admitted having thrown it. This was really strange. That night Poirot was thinking about it and found out that one person has been lying that day. He checked the hotel register and found out who it was.
3. Reconstruction
The next morning after breakfast Poirot asks everyone to come and listen who murdered Arlena. He told them how he found out that someone was lying and the person who was lying: Christine Redfern. She didn’t leave Linda at noon but at 11.40 a.m. Linda said that she had looked at her watch and it was noon but there wasn’t a noon-day-gun and Christine and Rex didn’t mention each other. She had putted Linda’s watch forward twenty minutes because she needed that time. She needed it because she was heading for the bay where Arlena was to ‘talk’ to her. In fact, she knocked her out, took her clothes and when Patrick Redfern and Mrs Gardener arrived, she looked as the corpse of Arlena. When Mrs Gardener left, Christine Redfern took her own clothes back on and she left back for the hotel. Christine had used a bottle of sun tan to look really like Arlena because she wasn’t brown at all and Arlena was. When she was back in the hotel she took a bath. Patrick Redfern had killed Arlena when he was waiting there. When Poirot has told everyone this Patrick Redfern said that it was impossible and Patrick and Christine went to get their luggage and wanted to leave. When they were waiting at the door Poirot asked Patrick to smoke his pipe. He refused. The end is that the diamond that belonged to Horace Blatt was hidden in the pipe. The murderer was catched and Poirot could enjoy his life again.
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