Books with title Curtain - Poirot's Last Case

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 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."

Published with the new Christie livery for Hercule Poirot. Read by Hugh Fraser, Captain Hastings in the popular TV series. 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, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?...