The 1930s · Cornwall, 1930s

Peril at End House

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A young woman has dodged three accidents in one week, and Poirot doesn't buy it

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On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot and Hastings meet Nick Buckley, owner of End House. She laughs about having survived three accidents in a few days. Poirot finds a bullet hole in her hat and decides someone wants her dead. Nick has her cousin Maggie come to stay. On a fireworks night, Maggie is shot dead while wearing Nick's shawl. It soon emerges that Nick was secretly engaged to a missing aviator who left her a fortune. Poirot fakes Nick's poisoning to rattle the suspects. The truth turns everything around: Nick invented the attacks herself and killed Maggie, the real fiancée and heir.

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What changed on screen

Behind the scenesIt became a play
In 1940 the book was adapted for the stage by Arnold Ridley, the actor later known for the sitcom Dad's Army.
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ReferenceThe full team
Hastings narrates and Japp turns up late: one of the cases with Poirot's classic crew together, far from London.
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