I feel mixed towards Peril at End House. The solution was a very clever one and the murder is compeltely convincing. The only trouble is the main characters are somewhat hard to like. Nick takes nothing seriously and her and her friends spend their time drinking cocktails or taking cocaine! I thought Poirot was always wary of Nick. I like the way Hastings is completely scandalised by Poirot reading Nick's letters!

I really loved the Suchet version of Peril at End House. I thought Nick was more likeable, whereas Frankie was portrayed as the bad one. The costumes, hats and dresses looked fantastic.

I thought this was too easy to solve. It seemed so obvious to me...

I watched the Soviet TV version ('89) before reading the book and it disappointed me. Poirot looked too pompous and ridiculous and Hastings was played by a former male model As far as I know, they were not in any other AC adaptations.

Here's a link to their picture, if anyone's interested:

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As for the book itself, I liked it much better, it's pretty high on my list of favourites.

Theres a fair few crimes going on in this small Cornish town, drug taking, drug pushing, murder and deception.

I suspected the murderer until the bit when they were sent poisoned choclates. Then I thought they couldn't have done it.

I loved the Suchet adaptation too - the setting and costumes as u said were brilliant, right down to a T! Although the mint green colour of the hotel makes me feel nauseous :S

I would love to have Nick's wardrobe! Beautiful outfits.

I loved the seance' scene, with Miss Lemon as meduim. If I hadnt read the book, I'd find that creepy. The viewer's told Nick's died of poisoning. She floats, all in white into the senace room. Excelent suspense.

Ooh I love that scene too!! "Is there anybody thereeee"???

I absolutely LOVE the house it's set in - it makes me want to live Nick's life! Beautiful big house in an idyllic location, carefree lifestyle, endless parties and socialising, a sleek red car, all on a summer's day ... aaah! (lol I'm such a romantic!)

Poor Maggie doesn't get much screen time does she! I also love this one because it has the Dream Team of Japp Lemon & Hastings in! :D

Introducing Miss Le'mone, the meduim!

I don't envy Nick's friends though. Ones a cocaine dealer, another a cocaine addict, another an art dealer who tired to con Nick. Then theres the "caring" neighbours who forged her will. Not a very friendly bunch. I don't mind having the outfits though, but I need the figure to go with it!

Nick's really a troubled character isnt she? She turns out to be obsessed with her Grandfather's memory and End House. She cant get over her cousin winning over the man she wanted for herself. Then she's madly jealous of Frankie, though why is a mystery to me.

Yes, poor Nick :( I always find it sad she felt she had to resort to murder to try and get what she wanted ... I know she loved the house but she could've sold up and moved onto somewhere a bit smaller! So pretty as well ...

I know, I don't like her friends either - unfriendly as well when poor Hastings tries to join in with them and they completely sideline him!

Frankie was really such a cat (as they say in AC books) in this version. Nick was more gentle, yet I prefered it this way. Frankie said "this watch always gives a good time" has a double meaning.

I don't think that her cousin was in love with her at all. The neighbour said so, but it's a plot decoy i reckon. He was quite a nice person, shame he didnt get paired up with someone.

If I had a entirely fictious party, I'd invite hastings!

Haha yeah she says in the film something like "They keep the best time the world!!" Shame they were a load of coke-heads!

If I had a party I'd invite Poirot, Hastings, lemon Japp. I love the little dinner party they had in Lord Edgware Dies (although we never see Mrs Japp do we!) Or Mrs Hastings come to think of that.

Hasting's wife only appears in one book and on TV progamme. They made some jokes about it in Murder in Mesoptomia. She got fed up with Hastings and was pleased he'd give her a break for a few weeks. It's more confusing as Hastings marries Dulcie in th book, but Bella on TV!

I'd invite all those people and I remember having a list somewhere on here of people I'd invte..

I have to love this book. Yes it was short, and yes it was written quite simply, but at the end of the day, it was a neat little mystery and completely original. I felt so unbelievably stupid when I read the solution, it seemed so obvious once I heard it, and yet so very well wriiten as that i didn't suspect a thing.

The whole chocolate box scenario confused me, so I just skimmed that and went to the next bit. The thing is, I am a very brisk reader, and this mystery can annoy you if you don't read it slowly and steadily. Altogether, a good book, and yet I can understand why AC couldn't really remember writing it...