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An oldish detective story lays in a bookshelf like any other book which has written almost hundred years ago. That prestigious book attracts as well younger as older readers all the more being a gloomy rescue of an autumn evenings and a sensitive breeze of a spring at the same time. Proficiency that both confuses and carries through a labyrinth of simple clues that are stashed very well. This British writer manage to entwine us with complicated but still so obvious plot –yes, of course I am talking about Agatha Christie`s writing, about Evil under the sun.

In the beginning of the book the main character, a colonist from Belgium Hercule Poirot, is typically having a holiday with a fistful of peculiar people until gloominess shows up. Characters personify persons of the real life in the sense that they have as many features and hence being careful with unreliability could be seen as the message of this book. On the other hand Christie gets an innocent person seeming like a quilty and therefore the point could be the phrase “Nothing is what it seems “. In spite of that similarity with our everyday life there is not a person to whose status a reader can easily fit oneself and that is how Christie gets a reader start to ponder the crime like he would be all-seeing and then attractiveness of the plot  abides. Without this Poirot`s explanation in the end could feel too confusing namely the story is not effortless to understand.

In the case that you have read many stories of Christie and because of similarity of the characters this story starts to feel too much worn out is the milieu compensatory. Who does not want to have breakfast in bed circled with blue water areas and green hills? The writer makes use of weather phenomena; When it is an ordinary day the sun is shining but when sunshine is over the murderer is behind unsuspecting visitor`s back and this is the way that turns readers into right frequency. This is a slightly flat way of writing but on account of this means the reader can catch the plot quickly.

Beautiful use of language confirms mysterious sensibility of the book. British English is even more than just an experience intrinsically. Sometimes you can notice how Christie has hidden into a one word a big clue. Actually it is not hidden but you did not think it could be remarkable and thus this book teaches also vigilance. Which comes to the name of the book it expresses very well Christie`s dramatic style although serenity of landscape moderates it and there is suitably drops of drama in the story. In the beginning the story does not  seem to flare up like sparkling wine but as rapidly as a child can fall asleep you can notice that there is drama like in a soap opera.

All in all Evil under the sun does not differ much from other Christie`s stories but nevertheless this writing belongs to a collection in which the main point is an equivalent clue which so easily deceives you time after another. I think Evil under the sun is much more than just evil. It shows how ornate a story could be without too many ways of influencing. Once in a while you can long for something new, providing that you have read other writings, so you have to focus on following clues like you were a real detective. Fortunately this may improve you as a reader. But why should this book be read? The way of spelling is above all ingenious and this kind of way have neither before nor after seen. In my opinion never have been written a book which does not teach anything.