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
Shirburn Castle doubles as Styles Court in the TV adaptation
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
A statuette of Poirot in Ellezelles, Belgium
Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film, Murder on the Orient Express
Peter Ustinov as Poirot in a 1982 adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun
Image: Florin Court (2)