Curtain christie6/24/2023 ![]() (pages 12-13)Ĭurtain is in many ways a sad book. Only his eyes were the same as ever, shrewd and twinkling, and now – yes, undoubtedly – softened with emotion. but now the theatricality was apparent and merely created the impression that he wore a wig and had adorned his upper lip to amuse the children! There had been a time when I had been surprised to learn that the blackness of Poirot’s hair came out of a bottle. There comes a moment when hair dye is only too painfully obvious. His moustache and hair, it is true, were still of a jet black colour, but candidly, though I would not for the world have hurt his feeling by saying so to him, this was a mistake. ![]() Crippled with arthritis, he propelled himself about in a wheeled chair. He is saddened by the devastation age has had on Poirot: ![]() ![]() Hastings is the narrator of this mystery. ![]() Poirot is now an old man (just how old is not revealed – I think if you go by the chronology of the novels he must have been about 120, but there is no need to be too precise), and close to death. In this book Poirot and Hastings have come full circle, returning to Styles, the scene of their first case. Agatha Christie had written it with the intention that it be published after her death, but in 1975 her publishers persuaded her to release it so that it could appear in time for the Christmas season – a ‘Christie for Christmas’. Curtain was first published in 1975, but it was written in the 1940s during the Second World War. ![]()
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