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%%* CorruptTheCutie: Implied as a backstory.

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%%* * CorruptTheCutie: Implied as a backstory. backstory, when [[spoiler:in his summation, Poirot describes how Nick began to hate Freddie because Freddie has, as Poirot puts it, "the knack of winning love, and ''keeping'' it", and also how her love for End House drove her to murder Maggie to claim her inheritance.]]



** When Charles Vyse reads out Nick's will, everyone was surprised to hear that she had left her entire fortune to [[spoiler:Mrs. Croft]]. This turns out to be a forgery.

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** When Charles Vyse reads out Nick's will, everyone was surprised to hear that she had left her entire fortune to [[spoiler:Mrs. [[spoiler:Mrs Croft]]. This turns out to be a forgery.



* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler:Nick]] tries to frame [[spoiler:Freddie]] by placing a gun in her coat, unaware that she is being watched.

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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler:Nick]] tries to frame [[spoiler:Freddie]] by placing a gun in her coat, unaware that she [[spoiler:she]] is being watched.
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* LostWillAndTestament: The will of Nick is missing, only to turn up after her [[spoiler: faked]] death, and it turns out that [[spoiler:it's a fake]].

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* LostWillAndTestament: The will of Nick is missing, only to turn up after her [[spoiler: faked]] death, and it turns out that [[spoiler:it's it's a fake]].fake made by [[spoiler:the Crofts]].

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No Femme Fatale appears in the novel, as far as I know.


* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick. She's Poirot's client for the novel and appears to be in danger, but it's all an act to cover up her murder of her cousin]].

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick. She's Poirot's client for the novel and She appears to be in danger, but it's all an act to cover up her murder of her cousin]].cousin as another attempt on her life]].



%%* FemmeFatale
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While discussing the possible motives for murder, Poirot briefly mentions [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]] and how ingenious his methods of killing were. In Literature/{{Curtain}}, Poirot must face a killer who [[spoiler: had perfectly mastered Iago's methods and is able to commit murder through other people while he himself remain legally innocent.]]

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%%* FemmeFatale
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While discussing the possible motives for murder, Poirot briefly mentions [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]] and how ingenious his methods of killing were. In Literature/{{Curtain}}, Poirot must face a killer who [[spoiler: had perfectly mastered Iago's methods and is able to commit murder through other people while he himself remain remains legally innocent.]]



* LostWillAndTestament: The will of Nick is missing, only to turn up after her [[spoiler: faked]] death.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: This trope appears to be in play for the attempts on Nick's life. [[spoiler:This is her cover for the crime she is planning.]]

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* LostWillAndTestament: The will of Nick is missing, only to turn up after her [[spoiler: faked]] death.
death, and it turns out that [[spoiler:it's a fake]].
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: This trope appears to be in play for the attempts on Nick's life. [[spoiler:This is her cover for the crime she is planning.]] planning, which is the murder of her cousin]].



* SpookySeance: A dramatic one that culminates in [[spoiler:Nick entering the room as her own ghost.]]

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* SpookySeance: A dramatic one that culminates in [[spoiler:Nick entering the room as her own ghost.]] ghost]].
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The killer commits suicide through the use of [[spoiler:cocaine hidden in her wrist-watch]], which is a much easier to die than being hanged.
%%* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick.]]

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The killer commits suicide through the use of [[spoiler:cocaine hidden in her wrist-watch]], which is a much easier to die death than being hanged.
%%* * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick.]] [[spoiler:Nick. She's Poirot's client for the novel and appears to be in danger, but it's all an act to cover up her murder of her cousin]].



* EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects, even giving each one of them a letter of alphabet, and yet in the end it turns out that neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones are on it.

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* EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - -- and yet totally believably - -- subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects, even giving each one of them a letter of the alphabet, and yet in the end it turns out that neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones are on it.



* JustOneLittleMistake: The use of a love letter that does not mention [[spoiler:Nick's serious operation, despite being dated for that time. Also her RevealingCoverup at the end.]]

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* JustOneLittleMistake: The use of a love letter that does not mention [[spoiler:Nick's serious operation, despite being dated for that time. Also Also, her RevealingCoverup at the end.]]
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* TomboyishName: Nick Buckley.

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* TomboyishName: Nick Buckley.Buckley and Freddie Rice.

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The killer commits suicide through the use of [[spoiler:cocaine hidden in her wrist-watch.]]

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The killer commits suicide through the use of [[spoiler:cocaine hidden in her wrist-watch.]] wrist-watch]], which is a much easier to die than being hanged.



** [[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].

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** [[spoiler:The Crofts try When Charles Vyse reads out Nick's will, everyone was surprised to pass off hear that she had left her entire fortune to [[spoiler:Mrs. Croft]]. This turns out to be a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].forgery.



* HatDamage: Happens to Nick while she is in conversation with Poirot.

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* HatDamage: Happens to While Nick while she is in conversation was conversing with Poirot. Poirot, a bullet was apparently shot at her, narrowly misses her head and hits the rim of her hat instead. [[spoiler:However, it is almost certain that Nick had deliberately damaged the hat and left the bullet for Poirot to find in order to create an illusion that someone is after her life.]]



* InheritanceMurder: This is a suspected motive behind the attacks on Nick. The trope does turn out to be in play, but not in the standard manner: [[spoiler:the real murder plot is not against anyone who's leaving money but against the person who's its real heir.]]

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* InheritanceMurder: This is a suspected motive behind the attacks on Nick. The trope does turn out Nick, as she is engaged to be in play, but not in the standard manner: [[spoiler:the real murder plot is not against anyone who's leaving millionaire Michael Seton, who had left all his fortune to his fiancee. [[spoiler:While Seton's money was indeed the motive for the murder, the truth plays out differently from what was presupposed. Michael was engaged, not to Nick, but against to her cousin Maggie. As they have the person who's its real heir.]]same name -- Magdala Buckley -- Nick murders her cousin in order to claim the inheritance Michael had left for Maggie]].



* OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler:Averted. Nick and Maggie are both called "Magdala Buckley", and this is what makes Nick's plan possible.]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick.]]
* CoincidentalDodge: [[spoiler:Subverted.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Implied as a backstory.
* DrugsAreBad: Played with.
* [[spoiler:EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects, even giving each one of them a letter of alphabet, and yet in the end it turns out that neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones are on it.]]

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* %%* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick.]]
* %%* CoincidentalDodge: [[spoiler:Subverted.]]
* %%* CorruptTheCutie: Implied as a backstory.
* %%* DrugsAreBad: Played with.
* [[spoiler:EveryoneIsASuspect: EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects, even giving each one of them a letter of alphabet, and yet in the end it turns out that neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones are on it.]]



* FemmeFatale
* ForgingTheWill: [[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].

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* %%* FemmeFatale
* ForgingTheWill: {{Foreshadowing}}: While discussing the possible motives for murder, Poirot briefly mentions [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Iago]] and how ingenious his methods of killing were. In Literature/{{Curtain}}, Poirot must face a killer who [[spoiler: had perfectly mastered Iago's methods and is able to commit murder through other people while he himself remain legally innocent.]]
* ForgingTheWill:
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[[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].



* KillTheCutie: Poor [[spoiler:Maggie]].

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* %%* KillTheCutie: Poor [[spoiler:Maggie]].

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this, in order to expose [[spoiler:the Crofts]].

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded persuaded by Poirot to do this, in order to expose [[spoiler:the Crofts]].
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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler:Nick]] tries to frame [[spoiler:Mrs Rice]] by placing a gun in her coat, unaware that she is being watched.

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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler:Nick]] tries to frame [[spoiler:Mrs Rice]] [[spoiler:Freddie]] by placing a gun in her coat, unaware that she is being watched.
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* HeManWomanHater: Michael Seton's uncle Matthew disliked women, which is why Michael had to keep his engagement a secret.
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* LostWillAndTestament: The will of Nick is missing, only to turn up after her [[spoiler: faked]] death.
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* [[spoiler:EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones make it to it.]]

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* [[spoiler:EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects suspects, even giving each one of them a letter of alphabet, and yet in the end it turns out that neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones make it to are on it.]]
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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones make it to it.]]

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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspect: [[spoiler:EveryoneIsASuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones make it to it.]]
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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones makes it to it.]]

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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones makes make it to it.]]
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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspected: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones makes it to it.]]

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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspected: [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspect: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones makes it to it.]]
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* [[spoiler:EverybodyIsSuspected: Surprisingly - and yet totally believably - subverted. Poirot compiles a seemingly complete list of suspects and yet neither the main culprit (despite being there and well-known by everybody for all the time) nor one of the minor ones makes it to it.]]
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* InheritanceMurder: This is a suspected motive behind the attacks on Nick. The trope does turn out to be in play, but not in the standard manner: [[spoiler:the real murder plot is not against anyone who's leaving money but against the person who's its real heir.]]
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A novel by Creator/AgathaChristie published in 1932, featuring HerculePoirot.

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A novel by Creator/AgathaChristie published in 1932, featuring HerculePoirot.Literature/HerculePoirot.

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While staying at a Cornish resort, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, the beautiful young mistress of End House, who has escaped several attempts on her life. He decides to try to protect her and track down the would-be killer, and comes to End House where he meets an assortment of mysterious characters: Nick's cousin and lawyer Charles Vyse, the housekeeper Ellen, Mr and Mrs Croft who are leasing the cottage on Nick's property, Nick's friends Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, and George Challenger, and lastly her cousin Maggie, whom she asked to stay with her at Poirot's suggestion. On the night of a firework party, a corpse is found, wearing Nick's shawl...

Peril at End House contains examples of the following tropes:

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While staying at a Cornish resort, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, the beautiful young mistress of End House, who has escaped several attempts on her life. He decides to try to protect her and track down the would-be killer, and comes to End House where he meets an assortment of mysterious characters: Nick's cousin and lawyer Charles Vyse, the housekeeper Ellen, Mr and Mrs Croft who are leasing the cottage on Nick's property, Nick's friends Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, and George Challenger, and lastly her cousin Maggie, whom she asked to stay with her at Poirot's suggestion. On the night of a firework party, a corpse is found, wearing Nick's shawl...

Peril at End House
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Nick.]]

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* ForgingTheWill: [[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].

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* ForgingTheWill: [[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]]. dead]].
** Another, less direct version as well. [[spoiler: While Nick doesn't present a forged will, she does try to forge being the "Magdala Buckley" mentioned in the will when it actually referred to her cousin]].



* KillTheCutie: Poor [[spoiler:Maggie]].

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* KillTheCutie: Poor [[spoiler:Maggie]].[[spoiler:Maggie]].
* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Nick, Freddie, and Maggie. [[spoiler: The fact that both Nick and Maggie have the first name Magdala but neither use it is what makes the plan possible]].
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* TomboyishName: Nick Buckley.
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* CoincidentalDodge: [[spoiler:Subverted.]]
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A novel by Creator/AgathaChristie published in 1933, featuring HerculePoirot.

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A novel by Creator/AgathaChristie published in 1933, 1932, featuring HerculePoirot.

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While staying at a Cornish resort, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, the beautiful young mistress of End House, who has escaped several attempts on her life. He decides to try to protect her and track down the would-be killer, and comes to End House where he meets an assortment of mysterious characters: Nick's cousin and lawyer Charles Vyse, the housekeeper Ellen, an Australian couple leasing the cottage on Nick's property, Nick's friends Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, and George Challenger, and lastly her cousin Maggie, whom she asked to stay with her at Poirot's suggestion. On the night of a firework party, a corpse is found, wearing Nick's shawl...

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While staying at a Cornish resort, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, the beautiful young mistress of End House, who has escaped several attempts on her life. He decides to try to protect her and track down the would-be killer, and comes to End House where he meets an assortment of mysterious characters: Nick's cousin and lawyer Charles Vyse, the housekeeper Ellen, an Australian couple Mr and Mrs Croft who are leasing the cottage on Nick's property, Nick's friends Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, and George Challenger, and lastly her cousin Maggie, whom she asked to stay with her at Poirot's suggestion. On the night of a firework party, a corpse is found, wearing Nick's shawl...



* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this.

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this.this, in order to expose [[spoiler:the Crofts]].


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* ForgingTheWill: [[spoiler:The Crofts try to pass off a forged will while Nick is playing dead]].


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* KillTheCutie: Poor [[spoiler:Maggie]].


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* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Nick tries to invoke this with Freddie's dead husband, [[spoiler:ostensibly to spare Freddie, but really to cover up her own murder]].


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* SickbedSlaying: The poisoned chocolates sent to [[spoiler:Nick. Subverted in that not only is she not dead, but she sent them to herself as a ruse.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: Played with.

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FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this.
HatDamage: Happens to Nick while she is in conversation with Poirot.
MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:Inverted. Nick dressed up her murder of Maggie as this.]]
OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler:Averted. Nick and Maggie are both called "Magdala Buckley", and this is what makes Nick's plan possible.]]
SpookySeance: A dramatic one that culminates in [[spoiler:Nick entering the room as her own ghost.]]

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FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this.* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The killer commits suicide through the use of [[spoiler:cocaine hidden in her wrist-watch.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Implied as a backstory.

HatDamage: Happens * FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to Nick while she is in conversation with Poirot.do this.
* FemmeFatale
* HatDamage: Happens to Nick while she is in conversation with Poirot.
* HauntedHouse: End House has shades of this. [[spoiler:Lampshaded when it is suggested that the house's influence made Nick succumb to evil.]]
* JustOneLittleMistake: The use of a love letter that does not mention [[spoiler:Nick's serious operation, despite being dated for that time. Also her RevealingCoverup at the end.]]
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: This trope appears to be in play for the attempts on Nick's life. [[spoiler:This is her cover for the crime she is planning.]]
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MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:Inverted. Nick dressed up her murder of Maggie as this.]]
* OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler:Averted. Nick and Maggie are both called "Magdala Buckley", and this is what makes Nick's plan possible.]]
* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler:Nick]] tries to frame [[spoiler:Mrs Rice]] by placing a gun in her coat, unaware that she is being watched.
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SpookySeance: A dramatic one that culminates in [[spoiler:Nick entering the room as her own ghost.]]
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A novel by Creator/AgathaChristie published in 1933, featuring HerculePoirot.

While staying at a Cornish resort, Poirot meets Nick Buckley, the beautiful young mistress of End House, who has escaped several attempts on her life. He decides to try to protect her and track down the would-be killer, and comes to End House where he meets an assortment of mysterious characters: Nick's cousin and lawyer Charles Vyse, the housekeeper Ellen, an Australian couple leasing the cottage on Nick's property, Nick's friends Frederica Rice, Jim Lazarus, and George Challenger, and lastly her cousin Maggie, whom she asked to stay with her at Poirot's suggestion. On the night of a firework party, a corpse is found, wearing Nick's shawl...

Peril at End House contains examples of the following tropes:

FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Nick]] is pursuaded by Poirot to do this.
HatDamage: Happens to Nick while she is in conversation with Poirot.
MurderByMistake: [[spoiler:Inverted. Nick dressed up her murder of Maggie as this.]]
OneSteveLimit: [[spoiler:Averted. Nick and Maggie are both called "Magdala Buckley", and this is what makes Nick's plan possible.]]
SpookySeance: A dramatic one that culminates in [[spoiler:Nick entering the room as her own ghost.]]

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