Summary
Agatha Christie: The Curtain
The Curtain (published in 1975) is a crime novel by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings appear in this work for the last time.
Agatha Christie wrote the novel during the 1930s, when the Second World War was starting. Partly because she feared for her own life and partly because she wanted to have a fitting end to Poirot's cases. The novel was locked in a safe for almost 40 years. The last Poirot novel was Elephants Remember, which was published during the 1970s. Her last novel was Postern of Fate. Knowing that she would no longer write Agatha Christie novels in her old age, she decided to publish the Curtain.
The novel not only returns the plot to the first novel The Mysterious Affair in Styles, but also unites Poirot and Hastings who have not been together for decades.
Hastings comes to Styles St. Mary to visit her daughter and Poirot. At the entrance he meets Mr. and Mrs. Luttrell. He went to Poirot's room and along the way met Stephen Norton and Sir William Boyd Carrington. When he came to Poirot, he told him that it was bad and that a murder was about to happen, and that the murderer was the mysterious "X". Poirot knows who he is, but doesn't want to tell Hastings. Hastings investigated. The first accident happened. Mrs. Luttrell was shot in the arm. After a few days, a murder happened. Barbara Franklin was killed, but the police concluded that it was a suicide. In the end, Norton was also killed, and Poirot died the next day after that event. He left a letter to Hastings explaining everything.
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