Peril at End House

Peril at End House (A casa do penhasco, no Brasil^[1] / Perigo na Casa do Fundo, em Portugal) é um romance policial de Agatha Christie, publicado em 1932, protagonizado pelo detetive belga Hercule Poirot. Existe em Portugal uma tradução de de 1962 deste livro, intitulada A Diabólica Casa Isolada, publicada pela editora Livros do Livro.

[editar] Enredo

Poirot e seu fiel amigo Hastings vão passar uma temporada no Hotel Majestic, na costa da Cornualha. Lá conhecem uma bela mulher, Nicky Buckley, dona da casa do penhasco, que sofre uma série de atentados à sua vida, por sorte falhados. Poirot fica muito impressionado com a mulher e decide ajudá-la a evitar sua morte.

O enredo é cheio de surpresas e no final Poirot fica desiludido com as descobertas que faz.

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Detectives	Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy e Tuppence Beresford • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendente Battle • Inspetor Japp • Parker Pyne
Romances	The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • The Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • Ten Little Niggers • Murder Is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder Is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs. McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 from Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
como Mary Westmacott	Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Colectâneas de contos	Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death and Other Stories • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories • The Labours of Hercules • Three Blind Mice and Other Stories • Poirot's Early Cases • The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories • Double Sin and Other Stories • The Golden Ball and Other Stories
Peças de teatro	Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Spider's Web • The Unexpected Guest • Black Coffee • Fiddlers Three
Outros livros	The Road of Dreams · Come, Tell Me How You Live · Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories · Poems · An Autobiography
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