 Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Not known |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | September 1975 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 224 (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-00-231619-6 |
| OCLC | 1945891 |
| 823/.9/12 | |
| LC Class | PZ3.C4637 Cu PR6005.H66 |
| Preceded by | Poirot's Early Cases |
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1975[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year, selling for $7.95.[2][3]
The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937. It was adapted for television in 2013.
It is the last novel published by Christie before her death. Sleeping Murder, written during the Blitz and published posthumously, is her final published novel.
- ^ Peers, Chris; Spurrier, Ralph; Sturgeon, Jamie (March 1999). Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (Second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 15.
- ^ Cooper, John; Pyke, B A (1994). Detective Fiction – the collector's guide (second ed.). Scholar Press. pp. 82, 87. ISBN 0-85967-991-8.
- ^ "American Tribute to Agatha Christie: Twilight Years 1968-1976". May 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2014.