Зло под солнцем / Evil Under the Sun

Автор: | Агата Кристи |
Жанры: | Классический детектив , Детективы: прочее , Проза: прочее , Современная проза |
Год публикации: | 2020 |
В романе «Зло под солнцем» Эркюлю Пуаро предстоит побывать на респектабельном курорте. Однако покой великому сыщику только снится: даже на отдыхе ему придется заняться привычным делом – расследовать убийство. На первый взгляд картина ясна – виной всему любовный треугольник. Но треугольник может оказаться и четырех- и пятиугольником, а вполне вероятно, и куда более сложной геометрической фигурой.
When Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leathercombe Bay, it was thought the height of eccentricity on his part. A man of good family such as he was should have had a decorous mansion set in wide meadows with, perhaps, a running stream and good pasture.
But Captain Roger Angmering had only one great love, the sea. So he built his house a sturdy house too, as it needed to be, on the little windswept gull-haunted promontory cut off from land at each high tide.
He did not marry, the sea was his first and last spouse, and at his death the house and island went to a distant cousin. That cousin and his descendants thought little of the bequest. Their own acres dwindled, and their heirs grew steadily poorer.