History Literature / EvilUnderTheSun

The story has been adapted twice for the screen, firstly as a 1982 film starring Peter Ustinov with an all star cast and the music of Music/ColePorter, and secondly as a 2001 episode of the ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' series starring David Suchet.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Rex Brewster in the 1982 film.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of this story is often compared to ''DeathOnTheNile'': [[spoiler: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.]]

* GrandStaircaseEntrance: Jane Birkin does a stylish one in the climax of the 1982 film.

* SummationGathering

* WickedStepmother: Arlena, though only in the movie. She is constantly rude and insulting to Linda, takes every opportunity to shove her out of the way so she can have people's attention all to herself, and at one point actually calls her Cinderella.

* BusmansHoliday: For Poirot.

** In the 1982 version, Emily Brewster becomes the flambuoyant and effeminite Rex Brewster.

The story was adapted twice for screen, firstly in a 1982 film starring Peter Ustinov with an all star cast and the music of Music/ColePorter, and secondly in 2001 with [[Series/{{Poirot}} David Suchet]].

The story was adapted twice for screen, firstly in a 1982 film starring Peter Ustinov with an all star cast and the music of Music/ColePorter, and secondly in 2001 with David Suchet.

!!Evil Under the Sun contains examples of the following tropes:

* TitleDrop: "And yet you forget that everywhere, there is evil under the sun."

* Camp: Loads of it in the 1982 film.

* VoodooDoll: Linda uses one on Arlena. When Arlena is killed, Linda blames herself.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The murder of the adulterous Arlena greatly improves the situation for her widower Kenneth and his daughter Linda, whom Arlena neglected and abused.

* TriangRelations: Three apparent Type 7s (A = Patrick, B = Arlena, C = Christine; A = Arlena, B = Kenneth, C = Patrick); A = Kenneth, B = Arlena, C = Rosamund (or Daphne in the 1982 film). [[spoiler:Patrick doesn't love Arlena; this is just a ruse to kill her for her money. The first triangle therefore becomes Type 4 (A = Arlena, B = Patrick, C = Christine), and the second becomes Type 10 (A = Kenneth, B = Arlena, C = Patrick).]]

** In the original novel, he tries to strangle him.

* ClockDiscrepancy: A watch worn by a witness is deliberately altered to give the murderer an alibi [[spoiler:and allow him to stage a fake murder so that the victim appears to have been killed before she really is]].

Evil Under the Sun contains examples of the following tropes:

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The plot of this story is often compared to ''DeathOnTheNile'': [[spoiler: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.]]

** Sir Horace Blatt is not [[spoiler:a dope smuggler in this version, but simply a millionare who had an affair with Arlena.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: The David Suchet version turns Horace Blatt into a mastermind of illegal drug trafficking.

* TriangRelations: Two apparent Type 7s (A = Patrick, B = Arlena, C = Christine; and A = Arlena, B = Kenneth, C = Patrick). [[spoiler:Patrick doesn't love Arlena; this is just a ruse to kill her for her money. The first triangle therefore becomes Type 4 (A = Arlena, B = Patrick, C = Christine), and the second becomes Type 10 (A = Kenneth, B = Arlena, C = Patrick).]]

* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Christine pretends to have vertigo so nobody will suspect she climbed down the ladder.

* TitleDrop:
-> Poirot: And yet you forget that everywhere, there is evil under the sun.