SUMMARY: Someone wants Nick Buckley dead, but as events unfold at End House, Poirot and Hastings are drawn into a sinister plot to kill this young woman and Poirot is determined to protect her.
The Peril at End House is one of my favourites. It is incredibly clever and shows Poirot off at his finest, because it shows his noble side. He realises the threat to Nick Buckley, a young woman Poirot and Hastings meet while on holiday in Cornwall, and Poirot is utterly determined to protect her when it is revealed she has had several near death experiences in recent days, one of which happens right in front of Poirot when a bullet hole is discovered in her sunhat.
Except the problem Poirot faces is that it isn’t entirely obvious why anyone would want to kill her. The will she made leaves the few possession she has, including her beloved family home, End House to her cousin and her friend, but none of that is worth killing her to obtain. Then in a case of mistake identity, someone else ends up dead, which made Poirot all the more determined as a protector.
It is a fantastic book, with an ingenious conclusion and fantastically seeded hints about what is going on, and I highly recommend it. In addition I will also recommend the David Suchet adaption of this book; it is a very faithful adaptation, and well worth a watch as well.
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