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Chargement... Curtain (original 1975; édition 1976)par Agatha Christie (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHercule Poirot quitte la scène par Agatha Christie (1975)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was the last of the Poirot mysteries yet somehow Agatha Christie managed to come up with a clever plot that goes well outside the mystery genre's cliches. It's no wonder she's still considered one of the best mystery writers of all time. ( ) Published in 1975, and supposedly written about 35 years earlier, which puts it at the beginning of World War II, apparently during the blitz. I have read this before, when I was reading the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge. Now I have re-read it for my U3A Agatha Christie Reading Group. However we intend to keep up our reading and discussion next year. Nearing the end of his life Hercule Poirot has discovered 5 murders where he believes innocent people have borne the responsibility but at someone else's design. He calls this person X. The place where he met Hastings so many years ago, Styles, has now become a guest house, and one of the people now staying there is X. Poirot realises that X will never be tried in a court of law and he is determined that he will deal with X himself. He wants Hastings to be his eyes and ears because he himself is crippled with arthritis, and prone to heart attacks, and in a wheel chair. But Poirot understands the dangers to both Hastings and himself, as well as Hastings' daughter Judith who is also living at Styles. This novel is a very fitting tribute to Poirot, obviously written while Christie was still enamoured with him, and not yet ready to kill him off. A revolving bookcase in an Innovations catalogue* brought be back to the final Poirot novel, but written many years (30ish) earlier so it's chronologically more aligned to her pre war novels. On this reading I found it a little unengaging, but that may've been me. The plot takes us back to where Poirot began, the house Styles, where he is staying, a physically broken man, and where he has invited his faithful friend Hastings, to help prevent a murder. So an oddity in many ways but a completion of the Poirot story. *To say more would be a spoiler! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieHercule Poirot (33) Appartient à la série éditorialeAdey's Locked Room Murders (0439) Delfinserien (557) Il giallo [Mondadori] (1403) Scherz Krimi (1305) — 2 plus Selecciones de Biblioteca Oro (libro 297) Vampiro (348) Est contenu dansMurder on the Orient Express and Other Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) par Agatha Christie Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansPrix et récompensesDistinctions
Ramolli, Hercule Poirot ? Allons donc Il a beau tre clou par l'arthrite dans une chaise roulante, son brillantissime cerveau n'en reste pas moins en pleine forme. D'ailleurs, n'est-ce pas dans un fauteuil qu'il a l'habitude de mener l'enqu te? Et puis, les lieux lui sont familiers. Le manoir de Styles... Poirot s'est illustr ici m me, jadis. Il pourrait presque s'y trouver en p lerinage. Mais non. Il est venu affronter un meurtrier particuli rement coriace. Li cinq affaires criminelles - bigre, joli tableau de chasse - et d termin r cidiver. C'est compter sans les increvables petites cellules grises. Et la volont de Poirot de quitter la sc ne sur un coup de ma tre... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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