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After years of solving some of the best murder mysteries of all time, Poirot goes back to the place it all began for his final case. And boy is it a good won.

Knowing that he is in his final days, Poirot reunites with his old friend Captain Hastings at Styles, the house where their first case took place. The owners have long since died, and the House is now basically a bed & breakfast. Here, Poirot is convinced a cunning murder is in hiding, and he is determined to stop him before he dies.

The writing in this book is devastatingly good. You get inside Hastings head like never before. the characters are Christie's standard collection of enjoyable oddballs. The mystery is very hard to figure out on the first reading, but once you've read the solution and go back through, you'll slap yourself in the head with after seeing how well it was set up. I wouldn't say it's the best mystery Christie's written, because it's tough to compete with 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', but it's probably the second best.

If you haven't already done so, go buy some other Poirot mysteries, and then read this. Then pour one out and shed a tear for one of the greatest detectives in the history of fiction.


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Curtain Hercule Poirot Agatha Christie 9780425173749 Books Reviews

Love Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot in particular. This final book was not true to Poirot's character. The man who walked away from Murder on the Orient Express would not have acted the way this Hercule Poirot did. Poirot is older and not well but he would never act in this manner. Hastings also would have been more attentive to what was being asked of him. I can't say too much because it would ruin the book. I always enjoy an Agatha Christie book and believe I have now read all of them but this one wasn't written when she was at the top of her game.
Well !? I was miffed to have missed the David Suchet television representation of Poirot's last ever mystery, so I decided that i HAD to read the book - based on the buzz that had been created by the media surrounding the storyline.

I shall not spoil the plot and reveal all - that would be so unsportsmanlike (other contributors should take note!) - so I shall just say that as an Agatha Christie fan I was kind of putting off reading this, almost like saving the best for last, but also knowing that it would be 'strange' to go back to other Poirot novels knowing what happens to him in this final story.

The story is narrated by Hastings, his ever-faithful friend and co-sort. It was written in a remarkably clever manner, still detailing the usual pithy Christie characterisations and observations of all the people present (the list of suspects). So it was almost like reading any other Agatha Christie - it was an enjoyable read. The only thing that was disappointing was the lack of the man himself 'starring' in this book, as it really would have been a spectacle to have Poirot weave his eccentricities throughout, creating tensions, asking questions, motivating the energy, bringing out sub-plots and then - as always - gathering the crowd of maybe-murderers together at the end to do the 'big reveal'. In this book we find Poirot a very elderly and immobile figure, confined to a wheelchair, bound by his physical ailments and - for the most part in this book - locked away in his room at the hotel only surfacing occasionally to steer Capt Hastings back on track with the investigations.

Needless to say, the mystery is solved - it is all justifiable and made sense in the end - and, yes!, Poirot does a type of final performance/reveal at the end which wraps it all up nicely. However, I cannot help but feel that this was written almost in a cold, calculated, way by AC as necessity out of having to detail the end of Poirot, to wrap him up and close that chapter for herself, the publishers and the readers. There did not feel any real act of love for Hercule, which I was quite saddened by.

Hastings does somehow manage to carry Curtain though,and is an affable, likeable, diligent character. It is through his emotions, from his perspective, that we view the demise of the Great Belgian Detective. It just would have been nice to have felt it for myself.
The circle is completed as Hastings and Poirot return to Styles in Essex for their final case. Poirot s first case was located in this evil locale in The Mysterious Affair at Styles published in 1920. While it is the last Poirot case it was not the last Poirot novel written by Christie. Dame Agatha wrote it during the London Blitz of 1940. She made sure Curtain and Sleeping Murder the last case of Miss Marple were placed in a London vault for safekeeping should she run short on ideas for stories. This novel did not see the light of day until it was published in 1975 a year before Christie s death.
The plot is narrated by Arthur Hasting. The former companion of Poirot he has returned to England following the death of his wife. He had been living for many years in Argentina. At Styles he discovers one of his daughters Judith Hasting is residing at Styles. Judith is assisting in research medicine with Dr. John Franklin. Franklin is wed to an invalid wife . Also staying at Styles (which has been converted from an estate to a paying guest house) are Colonel Toby Luttrell and his wife. They operate the facility. Also present are Nurse Craven, Stephen Norton and Sir William Boyd-Carrington. Two murders transpire during the course of the brief book of 224 pages. Poirot dies and his notes of the case which solve the crime are read by Hastings four months after the demise of the Belgian detective extraordinaire. Poirot suffered from heart disease but his little great cells continued to function until his mortal end. Every fan of Agatha Christie should read this important novel in the Christie canon.
After years of solving some of the best murder mysteries of all time, Poirot goes back to the place it all began for his final case. And boy is it a good won.

Knowing that he is in his final days, Poirot reunites with his old friend Captain Hastings at Styles, the house where their first case took place. The owners have long since died, and the House is now basically a bed & breakfast. Here, Poirot is convinced a cunning murder is in hiding, and he is determined to stop him before he dies.

The writing in this book is devastatingly good. You get inside Hastings head like never before. the characters are Christie's standard collection of enjoyable oddballs. The mystery is very hard to figure out on the first reading, but once you've read the solution and go back through, you'll slap yourself in the head with after seeing how well it was set up. I wouldn't say it's the best mystery Christie's written, because it's tough to compete with 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', but it's probably the second best.

If you haven't already done so, go buy some other Poirot mysteries, and then read this. Then pour one out and shed a tear for one of the greatest detectives in the history of fiction.