And then there’s the enormous portrait of Agatha Christie hanging next to the guest bed. A copy of “The Poisoner’s Handbook.” A professional-looking microphone perched on a wooden desk. Poirot has also died of what the coroner says is a heart attack.At first glance, Kemper Donovan’s backyard bungalow appears perfectly normal for this Santa Monica neighborhood, but a few clues suggest otherwise.Ī map of the English county of Devon. While the death is rendered a suicide, Poirot emphatically tells Hastings that she was purposely murdered.īy the end of the novel, Norton, another of the houseguests and who Poirot determines is X, is dead by Poirot's hand. Franklin is poisoned, it appears as if X has struck again. Franklin, the wife of the doctor and Hastings daughter's boss, Dr. Poirot tells Hastings that because his mind is able but his body isn't, Poirot needs Hastings to help him with the investigation.
He has just returned from Egypt and so he is in a wheelchair. Poirot is also very old and has a bad heart. Poirot also tells Hastings that he won't reveal to Hastings who X is. Poirot says he knows who the killer is but he doesn't know who the intended victim is. Poirot tells Hastings that the murderer, which he names X, is responsible for all five cases. When Hastings arrives at the guesthouse, Poirot shows Hastings a paper that describes five different murder cases. Hercule Poirot is a French private investigator that is world renown for solving some of the most perplexing mysteries.
Hastings meets his good friend, and famous investigator, Hercule Poirot, who is also staying the Styles guesthouse. The story follows the main character, Arthur Hastings, where he embarks on a trip to stay in the Styles guesthouse, which is a house that he once lived in when his friends owned it. Curtain is a Hercule Poirot mystery novel by the best-selling author Agatha Christie.
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