Evil Under The Sun - Characters

Characters

  • Hercule Poirot, famous Belgian detective with magnificent moustaches and little "grey cells"
  • Colonel Weston, Chief Constable
  • Inspector Colgate, investigating officer
  • Sergeant Phillips, policeman
  • Dr Neasdon, police surgeon
  • Captain Kenneth Marshall, in his 40s, Arlena's husband, stiff, proud
  • Arlena Stuart Marshall, former actress,Kenneth's wife
  • Linda Marshall 16, Kenneth's daughter, Arlena's stepdaughter, naive and precocious
  • Patrick Redfern, Christine's husband, infatuated with Arlena
  • Christine Redfern, Patrick's wife, pretty "in a washed out way", "mousy"
  • Rosamund Darnley, fashionable dressmaker, Kenneth's long-ago sweetheart
  • Emily Brewster, athletic spinster, rows daily
  • Mrs Carrie Gardener, garrulous American tourist
  • Mr Odell Gardener, echoes his wife
  • Horace Blatt, large and too loud, avoided by everyone
  • Reverend Stephen Lane, in his 50s, calls Arlena Marshall "evil through and through"
  • Major Barry, retired officer talks endlessly about India
  • Gladys Narracott, chambermaid in the Jolly Roger Hotel
  • Mrs Castle, owner of the Jolly Roger Hotel.

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