title: The Perils of Poirot:  The ABC Murders / Murder on the Links / Peril at End House / Cat Among Pigeons
author: Agatha Christie
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  # The Peril at End House
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Peril at End House
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 9 – A. to J.
  
  
  I doubt if I shall ever forget the night that followed. Poirot was a prey to
  such an agony of self-reproach that I was really alarmed. Ceaselessly he
  strode up and down the room heaping anathemas on his own head and deaf to my
  well-meant remonstrances.
  
  
  'What it is to have too good an opinion of oneself. I am punished-yes, I am
  punished. I, Hercule Poirot. I was too sure of myself.'
  
  
  'No, no,' I interpolated.
  
  
  'But who would imagine-who could imagine-such unparalleled audacity? I had
  taken, as I thought, all possible precautions. I had warned the murderer-'
  
  
  'Warned the murderer?'
  
  
  'Mais oui. I had drawn attention to myself. I had let him see that I
  suspected-someone. I had made it, or so I thought, too dangerous for him to
  dare to repeat his attempts at murder. I had drawn a cordon round
  Mademoiselle. And he slips through it! Boldly-under our very