Hercule Poirot Mysteries Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition, Book 37, (Paperback)

from smik

Published in 1975, and supposedly written about 35 years earlier, which puts it at the beginning of World War II, apparently during the blitz. Hastings, as narrator, makes his first appearance since DUMB WITNESS. In fact he has married, brought up four children, and then buried his wife. The time...

from vintagebeckie

Curtain, the last case for Hercule Poirot takes place at Styles, the manor where Agatha Christie first introduced the funny little Belgian detective who makes use of his little gray cells. With him is a widowed Captain Hastings who has returned to England from Argentina. I loved how Christie brou...

from Maydacat

This is Poirot's last case, and it ends where it all began. His mind is sharp until the last, and he is still educating Hastings in the way true detectives should think. A fitting way to finish Poirot's career, it is still sad to see it come to an end. Well written, fans of Christie will find it ...

from TheCriticalTimes

When we think of a murder mystery we think of a plot where a detective finds out who killed whom, with what and possibly where. None of this applies to this masterpiece mystery. Although known as the second novel Agatha Christie ever wrote, it is one of the last ones published. Agatha Christie he...

from raizel

I didn't guess it. This is Poirot's last case and a fairly satisfying end to the series. In it he confronts the perfect criminal. I really don't remember much about the other Poirots I read, but his loyal sidekick, Hastings, is very obviously an unreliable narrator in this one. I'm not convinced ...