An ailing Poirot returns to Styles with Hastings nearly three decades after solving their first mystery there in order to prevent a serial killer from claiming more victims. With David Suchet, Helen Baxendale, Hugh Fraser, Anne Reid. Styles is the rambling country house where the pair first met 30 years ago, when Poirot was a refugee and Hastings a wounded soldier. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: Directed by Hettie Macdonald. The first actor to take on the role of portraying Poirot in his final hours was David Suchet, as the final episode of the series Agatha Christie’s Poirot for which he’d been playing the role for twenty-five years. Confined to a wheelchair and crippled with arthritis, the now elderly HERCULE POIROT is reunited with his old companion CAPTAIN HASTINGS - back where it all began. The reception of Poirot’s death was international, even earning him an obituary in The New York Times he is still the only fictional character to have received such an honour. It was agreed among the family that Curtain would be published finally in 1975 by Collins, her long-standing publishers, and that Sleeping Murder (the Marple story written during the war for her husband, Max) would follow. Curtain: Poirot's Last Case: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries, 39) Paperback Octoby Agatha Christie (Author) 2,021 ratings Part of: Hercule Poirot (39 books) See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. The story was both anticipated and dreaded by Agatha Christie fans worldwide, many of whom still refuse to read it, as it is known to contain Poirot’s death.Īgatha Christie wrote it during World War II, as a gift for her daughter should she not survive the bombings, and it was kept in a safe for over thirty years.

Poirot’s final case, a mystery which brings him and Hastings back to Styles where they first solved a crime together. Already responsible for several murders, X, Poirot warns, is ready to strike again, and the partners must work swiftly to prevent imminent murder. Though aware of the criminal's identity, Poirot will not reveal it to the frustrated Hastings, and dubs the nameless personage 'X'.

Arthritic and immobilized, Poirot calls on his old friend Captain Hastings to join him at Styles to be the eyes and ears that will feed observations to Poirot's still razor sharp mind.

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