She then threw away the bottle, which (unbeknowest to her) narrowly missed Emily Brewster who walked passed by. While Linda went swimming, Christine secretly set Linda's watch twenty minutes forward, asked the time to set her alibi, before returning the watch to the correct time.Īrriving back to her room in the hotel, Christine wore the same style of swimsuit as Arlene's and used fake suntan makeup to cover her skin, making it deeper and more like being tanned by the sun.

She at first lied about her fear of heights before she went out and stayed with Linda at the beach. In their ploy to gain Arlena Marshall's wealth, Christine allowed her husband to have a love affair with Arlena, who was already infamous for being flirtarous. When the police arrived, Alice was found strangled, and Patrick earned her fortune due to their marriage.

Turned out, Patrick (under the alias of Edward Corrigan) had plotted the ploy and murdered his first victim with the assistance of his wife, with Alice faking death at first to play a trick before Patrick murdered Alice for real, just in time when Christine, disguised as a school teacher, saw the 'murder' and ran for the police. The former also previously portrayed Louise Bourget in 1978 film adaptation of Death on the Nile, which also starred the late Sir Peter Ustinov as Poirot.Ĭhristine Redfern is the wife of Patrick Redfern, who played the role of a witness during a death of young woman, Alice Corrigan, whom her husband falsely 'married' and later killed. She was portrayed by Jane Birkin in the 1982 film adaptation of the story and by Tamzin Malleson in the 2001 adaptation within Agatha Christie's Poirot. She is an accomplice to her murderous husband, Patrick Redfern, into luring rich and beautiful women into false marriage before killing them to gain their wealth. How I wish I could do that, just lie in the sun.Ĭhristine Redfern is the secondary antagonist of Agatha Christie's 1941 Hercule Poirot novel Evil Under the Sun.

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