Curtain
Book description
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole,…
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2 authors picked Curtain as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Agatha Christie was a wonder as an author. Only the Bible and Shakespeare have been printed more than she has. Curtain was her last book with Hercule Poirot, and while you always knew what to expect overall on a Poirot story, I thought she did a wonderful job for an intriguing send off for the little Belgian detective. Bringing Hastings back was pleasantly nostalgic, and the "type" of murderer was equally fascinating. As was a bit of a callback to previous books in how she wrapped it up.
I’ve been a murder mystery fan for years and Christie is just the best. Other mysteries often don’t have the clues available. Then the detective pulls something out of the hat to solve the crime.
Christie’s novels are different. All the clues and hints are there, but only when Poirot explains the mystery does everything fall into place. I always put the book down thinking, "I should have spotted that."
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