Peril at End House

#89 in Crime & mystery

Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

First published 1932Original language EN

7.87.8 / 10
Score out of 10260 ratingsConfidence 64%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#89 of 200 in Crime & mystery ahead of 56% of the category
224
Pages
about 4 h
Reading time

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About the book

Peril at End House is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).

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On screen

This book has been adapted for the screen 3 times — from 1981 to 1990.

  • TV filmPeril at the End House1990dir. Renny RyeIMDb
  • FilmPeril at End House1989dir. Vadim DerbenyovIMDb
  • SeriesPeril at End House1981dir. Balys BratkauskasIMDb

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.9 across 260 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 64% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.422 9%
Hardcover7.9238 92%

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It has 224 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.

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