E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Peril at End House;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.Nick is an unusual name for a pretty young woman. And Nick Buckley has been leading an unusual life of late. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car fail. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder misses her by inches. Safe in bed, she is almost crushed by a painting. Upon discovering a bullet hole in Nick’s sun hat, Hercule Poirot (who had come to Cornwall for a simple holiday with his friend Captain Hastings) decides that the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.Times Literary Supplement: 'Ingenious.'
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- Captain Hastings (Fictitious character)
- English Detective and mystery stories
- Fiction
- Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
- Mystery
- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- English literature
- English language
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
- Private investigators, fiction
- Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- London (england), fiction
- England, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Detectives
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