Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
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 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year, selling for $7.95.
Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Not known |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | September 1975 |
| 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 |
| Followed by | Sleeping Murder |
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.