Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case (1975) by Agatha Christie
Sometimes when I can’t decide which new book to read, I opt for a re-read instead, which is why this Christie title is being reviewed today. It is one that I have had on my to-be-re-read list for a while, so it was good to finally get around to doing it. The fact Curtain is set at Styles Court (the setting for the first novel in the series, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)), has always appealed to me, as it gives the series a feeling of being bookended. Moreover, I like how the country house and the state it has been reduced to, is symbolic of time having past and aged the principal characters, namely Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings.
SPOILER WARNING – If you have not read this book before, turn away! Turn back before it is too late, and you accidently read more about the book than you would like to know.
‘A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…
