Peril At End House.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

Publication: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932, New York

First U. S. edition. Minor spotting to top and fore edges, else fine in a bright dust jacket with a few tiny chips at bottom of spine panel and a few closed tears to top and bottom edges of rear panel. A Hercule Poirot mystery. While vacationing at a resort on the Cornish coast, Poirot and Hastings meet beautiful young heiress Magdala Buckley. Magdala she confides to them that she has recently survived several events that might have taken her life ... a heavy-framed picture dropping on her head, a boulder falling off a cliff, and failed brakes. When Poirot notices a bullet hole in her hat, they put her under their protection and discover that her dead fiance, a noted aviator killed in a tragic accident, had named her as heir in his will, making her the unexpected beneficiary of a great fortune. Poirot realizes this inheritance is the motive for continued attempts on her life, and in his quest for the the truth, he uncovers a tangled web of greed, forgery, drug addiction, fraud, poison, and murder. An exceptional copy.

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