cocoonofbooks 's review for:

Peril at End House: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie

4.5

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This twist may be one of my favorites, especially since I guessed the one in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. I was convinced I'd figured out the mystery, and then it turned out that what I'd figured out was just a tiny piece of the puzzle — Christie fooled me again, though as usual the clues were all there. Hastings isn't nearly as obnoxious and bumbling as he is in some other books. The only thing that bothered me was

the complete lack of resolution regarding the Crofts — Japp recognizes Mrs. Croft as a known criminal, and then Frederica's husband shows up and we don't hear anything else about the Crofts except later that they're led off by a police officer. Who was Mr. Croft? They said his fingerprints didn't match a known criminal, so was he a brand-new accomplice? Was he actually Australian? How much did he really know about what was going on? I had so many questions about the Crofts that were never answered.

I hadn't heard of this before as one of the classic Hercule Poirot mysteries (doesn't the title sound kind of like a Goosebumps book?) but I think it's worth a read!