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Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie Summary & Study Guide Description
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Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie Plot Summary
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In Peril at End House, retired detective Hercule Poirot becomes involved in the seeming murder attempts against Nick Buckley, the attractive young owner of a family mansion called End House. Nick's cousin Maggie Buckley is killed, presumably mistaken for Nick, and Poirot gets Nick to reveal that she's secretly engaged to airman Michael Seton and heir to a large fortune. After Nick becomes poisoned by chocolates laced with cocaine, Poirot eventually realizes that he's been mistaken all along. Nick was never the intended victim. She murdered Maggie to take her place as Seton's supposed fiancée and heir.
As the novel begins, Poirot is on vacation in St. Loo, when a bullet hits the wall by his head. He discovers that beautiful, young Nick Buckley has had three recent close calls with death, and he believes that someone is trying to murder her. Nick agrees to ask her cousin Maggie to...
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