However, Poirot’s famous little grey cells are yet to desert him, and he declares that one of the guests staying at Styles is a five-time murderer.Īfter 25 years of playing the part of Poirot, David Suchet has said goodbye to the character we all know and love – and I suggest you prepare to also, it may be a teary one (it will be for me, anyway!)Ĭurtain airs this Wednesday, 8pm on ITV and is followed at 10:35pm by Being Poirot, in which David investigates the enduring appeal of the detective and reveals what it has been like to play the world-famous sleuth. No, scratch that, it is wonderful in both areas. The novel was adapted in 2013 starring David Suchet as Poirot. Both bear the ravages of time, Hastings is widowed and Poirot is wheelchair bound through suffering from arthritis. Curtain: Poirots Last Case does manage to be a good episode and good send-off. It was the last of her books to be published during her lifetime. It was the last novel that Christie would see published in her lifetime, as she was to die the following January.Ĭurtain sees Poirot and his old friend Hastings reunited for the first time since Dumb Witness, in the very house in which they first met. And so, in 1975 upon her authorization Curtain was removed from the bank vault and published by Collins Crime Club in September that year. After the publication of Elephants Can Remember and Postern of Fate, Christie became aware that she would no longer be able to continue writing. Written in the 1940s during World War II, Curtain was locked in a vault and was not to see the light of day for over 30 years. Today marks an historic day for television and the end of an era – it is Hercule Poirot’s swansong in the ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Curtain. It will be, too, my most interesting case.

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