Peril at End House

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Title Peril at End House

First edition cover
Author	Agatha Christie
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Hercule Poirot
Genre(s)	Mystery, Detective novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Released	1932
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN	NA
Preceded by	The Mystery of the Blue Train
Followed by	Lord Edgware Dies

Peril at End House (published in 1932) is a whodunnit mystery novel by Agatha Christie, featuring her famous character Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. It was the seventh novel featuring Poirot.

In Great Britain Penguin Books published a paperback edition (#688) of Peril at End House in August 1948. It cost one shilling and sixpence.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Characters in "Peril at End House" 3 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 4 External Links

[edit] Plot summary

Poirot's vacation in Cornwall takes a sinister turn when the charming Nick Buckley meets him and casually mentions that she's narrowly escaped death three times in as many days. Poirot is not so sure about the presumed accidents and has his worries confirmed when Nick's cousin Maggie is shot dead while getting a coat.

That orderly mind of Poirot makes a list of the all the people concerned, but doesn't realise until a while that he's left out an important character - the murderer.

[edit] Characters in "Peril at End House"

• Hercule Poirot – the Belgian private detective, protagonist
• Nick Buckley – who is in fear for her life
• Maggie Buckley – Nick's cousin
• Arthur Hastings – Poirot's trusty companion
• Chief Inspector Japp – from Scotland Yard
• Commander George Challenger – Nick's friend
• Jim Lazurus – son of a famous art dealer
• Frederica (Freddie) Rice – Nick's best friend
• Charles Vyse – Nick's cousin

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The story was adapted into a play in 1940

It was also adapted for the small screen and made into a TV drama in 1990, as part of the Agatha Christie's Poirot second series. Poirot was portrayed by David Suchet.

[edit] External Links

• http://www.all-about-agatha-christie.com/peril-at-end-house.html

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases • The Harlequin Tea Set
Plays: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three