Role in the novel (contains several spoilers)īefore Emily Inglethorp's death Evelyn Howard stormed out of the house muttering something about "a lot of sharks".
2.1 Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.1 Role in the novel (contains several spoilers).However, Arthur Hastings and Mary Cavendish point out that a woman could also us poisonous substances to kill.Īlfred Inglethorp received all of Emily's fortune, except for their house, which was given to John Cavendish. She associates murder to a man, because she believes it is a violent crime. She says that the close relatives of the victim would have known who was the killer, but they couldn't have proven it to a lawyer or a judge. Evelyn replies that crime novels are filled with nonsense, and that the "everyone dumbfolded" scene where the killed is revealed is not possible. Hastings compares Evelyn to frail elderly Daisy Luttrell ( Curtain) and says to himself that the two people are completely different.Įvelyn asks Arthur Hastings what his ideal profession was and he replies he would have liked to be the "Sherlock Holmes-ish" type of detective. When he first saw her, Arthur Hastings described Evelyn Howard as "a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a sensible square body". Evelyn was described as "not precisely young and beautiful" by John Cavendish, but he pointed out she knew how to do her job. She dislikes Alfred, so when Emily dies, she blames him for her murder. She was vocal about her negative views of Emily marrying Alfred Inglethorp, which presented himself as a distant cousin of Evelyn. In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Evelyn Howard (sometimes referred to as Old Evie) was Emily Inglethorp's companion, a robust woman of approximately forty years of age.
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