Curtain: Poirot's Last Case - Hardcover

Christie, Agatha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002316196 ISBN 13: 9780002316194

Publisher: Collins Crime Club, 1975

Synopsis

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in -- in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together.

Both Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days—but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his “little gray cells.” However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder beforethe curtain falls. . . .

About the Author:

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Crime Club
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0002316196
• ISBN 13: 9780002316194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221