#102 in Crime & mystery
Curtain
- 238
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Curtain” gives Hercule Poirot a fitting, melancholy farewell. It is his last case, and it stands apart from the usual Christie puzzle: the characters are ageing and know it, and right and wrong are less cleanly divided than her readers are used to. The ending is not perfect in every reader’s eyes; even so, those readers count the book a worthy close to the series.
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About the book
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.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 114 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 44% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 17 | 15% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 97 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is Curtain?
It has 238 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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