The doctor says the man is fatally injured and seeks help. Seeking the golf ball he hit over the cliff edge, he sees a man lying on the rocks below. Plot summary īobby Jones is playing golf with Dr Thomas in the Welsh seaside town of Marchbolt. Robert Barnard, writing in 1990, called it "Lively" but compared it to Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and felt that the detectives were too much the amateurs. It had a lively narrative, full of action, with two amateur detectives who "blend charm and irresponsibility with shrewdness and good luck". The novel was praised at first publication as "a story that tickles and tantalises", and that the reader is sure to like the amateur detectives and forgive the absence of Poirot. Bobby and his friend Lady Frances Derwent have adventures as they solve the mystery of the man's last words: "Why didn't they ask Evans?" A photo he saw in the man's pocket is replaced, as police seek his identity. Bobby Jones finds a man dying at his local golf course. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
It's well-acted, especially by Hugh Bonnerville as Hastings.Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in September 1934 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1935 under the title of The Boomerang Clue. A solid adaptation of one Agatha Christie's classic mystery, and it's well-paced, captures the era really well, follows the novel fairly closely, executes his twist and turn and red herrings quite well.
Stonor, the victim's private secretary, who is in love with Madame Renauld. The suspects are: Madame Eloise Renauld, the victim's wife, the victim's stepson, who disliked him, Jack's fiancée, who was frustrated by the victim's opposition to the engagement, Madame Bernadette Daubreuil, Marthe's mother and the former lover/possible partner-in-crime of the victim, Bella Duveen, Jack's former lover, who may have mistaken the victim for him and Mr. This clash of egos leads to a bet between the pair over who would solve the Renauld case first. Poirot also makes the acquaintance of Monsieur Girand of the Surete, an arrogant police official that views himself as the better detective. The next day he is found stabbed to death on a nearby golf course. While Poirot and Hastings are holidaying in Deauville, France with his close friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, a businessman - Paul Renauld whose assets include several South American business interests and the hotel where Poirot and Hastings are staying - claims that someone, probably from South America has made threats against his life.
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