Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie is the second mystery that I figure out! The first one was the previous book I read, Elephants Can Remember. I didn’t expect that at all. I enjoyed the book, but the low rating is because the style is a bit repetitive and annoying at times, which is not her usual.

This is a a story a bit unusual because Nick Buckley, a woman with an unusual name, is the victim of several attacks on her life: the brakes on her car failed, a falling boulder missed her by inches, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed, and Hercule Poirot discovers a bullet-hole in her hat. Poirot decided to try to protect the young woman while trying to discover who is the murderer when no crime was being committed, yet.

It was such an unexpected plot that I liked it a lot. The problem, for me, was the lists and repetitions, so this is what made the book less exciting than it could have been. I am surprised that I figured out the criminal, that was a bonus.

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

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My rating: 3.5/5 Stars
Would I recommend it: yes-ish
Published by: Harper
Year it was published: 2015 [first published in 1932]
Format: Paperback
Genre(s): Murder Mystery
Pages: 239

About the author: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, as the youngest of three. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse; later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison. During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in 1920. During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines. In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie’s death in 1976.
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