And Then There Were 55: Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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There is so much to cover in this devilishly clever and somewhat underrated Poirot mystery. (Plus cocaine. A lot of cocaine.) Join us as we discuss just how bad a job M. Poirot does in this one (it's surprising!), the finer points of Art Deco design, and the delightfulness of Cornwall as a setting (though sadly, sans Poldark).

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0:00.0	Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Clean of Crime
0:13.6	Dame Agathicristy.
0:15.2	I'm Catherine Broback.
0:16.5	And I'm Camper Donovan.
0:18.0	And this week we are doing peril at End House first published in the US.
0:26.0	This is now starting to be a little bit of a trend.
0:28.7	Yeah, a trend I like.
0:32.1	It was serialized. this has happened before, it was
0:35.0	serialized in Liberty over the summer of 1931, and it was published in February of
0:41.5	1932 by Dodd Mead and then in the UK by Collins Crime Club
0:46.5	the next month in March. It's a little weird to me that these are getting published
0:50.8	in the US first now but there we have it.
0:54.1	I assume that that will shift to first UK publication at some point because that's
1:00.0	at least how I always understood it worked but maybe not I don't know we're kind of
1:03.6	learning that as we look more closely at the publication day's yeah yeah
1:09.1	shall we talk about our victim we shall all right this a little complicated, but we'll get there.
1:15.9	It seems that our victim, emphasis on the word seems, is Nick Buckley, an elf and little, shall we say,
1:25.0	dare we say, manic-pixie dream girl.
1:28.0	Oh, I think we should say it.
1:30.0	She owns the ramshackle,
1:32.0	if sort of romantic with a capital R. End house and Cornwall.
1:36.2	It is absolutely romantic. It's crumbling and in gorgeous disrepair.
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