The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death.

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 Hercule 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 before the curtain falls.

Published
June 7, 1975
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#1 · 1920The Mysterious Affair at Styles #2 · 1923The Murder on the Links #3 · 1924Poirot Investigates #4 · 1926The Murder of Roger Ackroyd #5 · 1927The Big Four #6 · 1928The Mystery of the Blue Train #7 · 1930Black Coffee #8 · 1932Peril at End House #9 · 1933Lord Edgware Dies #10 · 1934Murder on the Orient Express #11 · 1935Three Act Tragedy #12 · 1935Death in the Clouds #13 · 1936The A.B.C. Murders #14 · 1936Murder in Mesopotamia #15 · 1936Cards on the Table #16 · 1937Murder in the Mews #17 · 1937Dumb Witness #18 · 1937Death on the Nile #19 · 1938Appointment with Death #20 · 1938Hercule Poirot's Christmas #21 · 1939The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories #22 · 1940Sad Cypress #23 · 1940One, Two, Buckle My Shoe #24 · 1941Evil Under the Sun #25 · 1942Five Little Pigs #26 · 1946The Hollow #27 · 1947The Labors of Hercules #28 · 1932The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories #29 · 1948Taken at the Flood #30 · 1950Three Blind Mice and Other Stories #31 · 1951The Under Dog and Other Stories #32 · 1952Mrs. McGinty’s Dead #33 · 1953After the Funeral #34 · 1955Hickory Dickory Dock #35 · 1956Dead Man's Folly #36 · 1959Cat Among the Pigeons #37 · 1960The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding #38 · 1961Double Sin and Other Stories #39 · 1963The Clocks #40 · 1966Third Girl #41 · 1969Hallowe'en Party #42 · 1972Elephants Can Remember #43 · 1974Poirot's Early Cases #44 · 1975Curtain #45 · 1991Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories #46 · 1997The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
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