Odell was seen reading by Daphne and her staff. Rex met Linda when entering Gull Cove at 12:00 and reports that a bottle flung from the top of a cliff nearly hit him. Patrick left at 11:30 with Myra, seeing Sir Horace's yacht coming, and hearing the noon day cannon firing. Arlena kept the diamond, promising an explanation that evening, and Poirot finds the fake jewel nearby in a grotto. Sir Horace argued with Arlena about the diamond at Ladder Bay at 11:30, which was confirmed by his yacht crew and by Daphne. Poirot must determine which of his seven fellow guests, or Sir Horace or Daphne, is the murderer.ĭaphne had heard Kenneth in his room typing at the time of the murder, and Christine was with Linda at Gull Cove and did not leave until 11:55 for a 12:30 tennis match. Patrick approaches the body and recognises Arlena, announcing that she has been strangled. Patrick and Myra go for a boat trip around the island and see a body lying motionless on the beach.
Early on the third morning, Arlena takes a paddle-boat to Ladder Bay. Writer Rex Brewster has already spent the royalties advanced to him for a tell-all biography of Arlena, but she refuses to give him a release for the biography, angering him. Arlena has also caused financial trouble for theatrical producers Odell and Myra Gardener, who are also at the resort, by walking out of a major play and refusing a role in another. Kenneth turns to his old friend, Daphne, who is horrified by the way the way that Arlena treats both him and Linda. Patrick is on the island only because Arlena arranged and paid for it. Arlena is emotionally abusive to his daughter, Linda, and flirts with Patrick Redfern who is married to Christine. Sir Horace's former mistress Arlena is an actress and is on holiday with her husband Kenneth. The hotel is the former summer palace of the reigning King of Tyrania, now owned by Daphne Castle, who had received the palace "for services rendered". Poirot agrees to meet Marshall at an exclusive Adriatic Sea island and confront her. Poirot agrees that it is a fake and assures the company that Sir Horace would have given a real diamond to his mistress Arlena Stuart Marshall she had apparently returned a fake version after their split. Around the same time, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is asked by an insurance company to examine a diamond ring belonging to millionaire industrialist Sir Horace Blatt. The victim had been strangled and is identified as Alice Ruber.
Plot Ī hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors in England.
Peter Ustinov stars as Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective whom he had previously played in Death on the Nile (1978). Evil Under the Sun is a 1982 British mystery film based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie and directed by Guy Hamilton.
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