by Agatha Christie
This review is going to be one big spoiler, so stop reading if you've not read this final Poirot. But I have stuff to say! First, this one was narrated by Hastings, who was a recurring character primarily seen in the earlier Poirot mysteries - he met his wife, "Cinderella" whose real name is never...
Curtain is the last novel starring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. This was a whirlwind year for me to actually read all of the Poirot books this year. There were definitely some books that were my favorites, and some that I ended up just outright disliking. This particular book felt like classic ...
MOST MEMORABLE PLOT TWIST I did not see it coming. I read this while travelling with work, so was stuck in a hotel room in a far away place and time zone - with no-one to phone and say "Omg, omg, omg....I did not expect this." Obviously, this was before my BL days - otherwise you all would have ...
Aptly named, Curtain is Poirot's final showing. It was written much before its 1975 publication date (here for more historical perspective on the later Christie works), which gives some perspective considering Christie planned on ending Poirot this way before she finally published it the year before...
A must-read!
I spent a lot of time being disappointed in the obvious red herrings. But in the reveal, some of that was assuaged because while they were red herrings, I had come up with the right answer to the wrong question, a question it did not even occur to me to ask. Well played, but less well executed tha...
You Chose Your Own Adventure!You are the killer: you kill yourself. You deserve it. Or do you? Are you the hero or the villain? But what does it matter; in the end, death comes to us all. Your adventure is over.If you decide to reject your notorious life and start anew, choose http://www.goodreads.c...
I had a Literary Guild copy that contained this, which is Poirot's last story and The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was the first. Poirot never appealed to me as much as other series detectives, however.
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