Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case audiobook

Curtain (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #42), Written about 1940, published 1975, Agatha ChristieAbstract: The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together. Both Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his “little gray cells.” However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder before the curtain falls. . . .Characters: Hercule Poirot, John Franklin, Barbara Franklin, Judith Hastings, Stephen Norton.عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «آخرین پرونده پوآرو»؛ «پرده»؛ «پوآرو از صحنه خارج میشود»؛ «مرگ به سبک پوارو»؛ «غروب استایلز»؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال 1998میلادی و سال 2000میلادیعنوان: پرده، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: رویا سعیدی، نشر: تهران، کتابهای کارآگاه وابسته به انتشارات هرمس، سال1379، در265ص، شابک9789647100465؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20معنوان: آخرین پرونده پوآرو، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: ثریا قیصری، نشر تهران، راستی نو، سال1377، در256ص.، شابک9645611156؛عنوان: پوآرو از صحنه خارج میشود، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم بیژن خرسند، نشر تهران، انتشارات کتاب، سال1360، در216ص، شابک نداردعنوان: مرگ به سبک پوارو، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: سید رضا حسینی، نشر تهران، ل‍ک‌ل‍ک، سال1372، در256ص، شابک نداردعنوان: غروب استایلز، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ ترجمه: بهرام افراسیابی، نشر تهران، راد، سال1372، در278ص، مصور، شابک نداردچکیده داستان: «پوارو» در نامه ای، از دوست و همراه همیشگی خویش «هستینگز»، درخواست میکند، که در عمارت «استایلز»، به او بپیوندد، عمارتیکه، اکنون به عنوان یک هتل، از آن استفاده میشود، «پوارو» که بیمار، و رنجور است، روی صندلی چرخدار مینشیند، و با قتلهایی مواجه است، که طی آن، قاتلین، همیشه به گناه خودشان اعتراف می‌کنند، و شخصی که مسبب اصلی قتلهاست، به شیوه ای مرموز، و شیطانی، نقش یک عامل را در جنایتها، ایفا میکند، ولی او هرگزی به دام نیفتاده است و ...؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 28/09/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 24/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

W sumie to się zaskoczyłam i bawiłam bardzo dobrze. Czego chcieć więcej od Christie? Polecam, ale to ostatnio tom Poirota, więc co nieco sobie możecie tu zaspojlerować

Curtain (Hercule Poirot #39), Agatha ChristieCurtain, Written about 1940, published 1975, Agatha Christie (1891 – 1976).Characters: Hercule Poirot, John Franklin, Barbara Franklin, Judith Hastings, Stephen Norton.Abstract: The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle they are back once again in the rambling country house in which they solved their first murder together. Both Poirot and Great Styles have seen better days but, despite being crippled with arthritis, there is nothing wrong with the great detective and his “little gray cells.” However, when Poirot brands one of the seemingly harmless guests a five-time murderer, some people have their doubts. But Poirot alone knows he must prevent a sixth murder before the curtain falls. . . .عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «آخرین پرونده پوآرو»؛ «پرده»؛ «پوآرو از صحنه خارج میشود»؛ «مرگ به سبک پوارو»؛ «غروب استایلز»؛ «راز مرگ: آخرین ماجرای پوارو»؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: سال1998میلادی و تاریخ خوانش این نسخه سال2000میلادیاین کتاب با عنوان فارسی: «آخرین پرونده ی پوارو» با برگردان: بانو «ثریا قیصری»، و با عنوان: «پوارو از صحنه خارج میشود» با برگردان آقای «بیژن خرسند»، و نیز، با عنوان: «پرده»، با برگردان بانو «رویا سعیدی»؛ و با عنوان: «غروب استایلز»؛ با ترجمه: آقای «بهرام افراسیانی»؛ در تهران، نشر راد، سال1372، در278ص؛ و در سال1392، در تهران، مهرفام، در325ص، با شابک9789649915357؛ نیز، به زیور چاپ آراسته شده استعنوان: پرده، مترجم: رویا سعیدی، نشر: تهران، کتابهای کارآگاه وابسته به انتشارات هرمس، سال1379، در265ص، شابک9789647100465؛ چاپ سوم سال1387؛ چاپ ششم سال1396؛ شابک9789647100465؛ چاپ هفتم سال1399؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده20معنوان: آخرین پرونده پوآرو، مترجم: ثریا قیصری، نشر تهران، راستی نو، سال1377، در256ص، شابک9645611156؛عنوان: آخرین پرونده پوآرو، مترجم: مهدی والفی، تبریز، ساحل، سال1373، در271ص، شابک: ندارد؛عنوان: پوآرو از صحنه خارج میشود، مترجم: بیژن خرسند، نشر تهران، انتشارات کتاب، سال1360، در216 ص، ، شابک: نداردعنوان: مرگ به سبک پوارو، مترجم: سید رضا حسینی، نشر تهران، ل‍ک‌ل‍ک، سال1372، در256ص.، ، شابک: نداردعنوان: غروب استایلز، ترجمه: بهرام افراسیابی، نشر تهران، راد، سال1372، در278ص، مصور، شابک نداردعنوان: پرده: آخرین پرونده پوارو؛ مترجم: فرشته شایان؛ تهران، ماهی، سال1399؛ در238ص؛ شابک9789642093670؛عنوان: راز مرگ: آخرین ماجرای پوارو؛ مترجم منیژه رضائی زاده؛ تهران، پاسارگاد؛ سال1377؛ در294ص؛ شابک ایکس-964607863؛چکیده داستان: «پوارو» در نامه ای از دوست و همراه همیشگی خویش «هستینگز» درخواست میکند، که در عمارت «استایلز» به او بپیوندد، عمارتی که حالا به عنوان یک هتل، از آن استفاده میشود، «پوارو» که بیمار و رنجور است، روی صندلی چرخدار مینشیند، و با قتلهایی مواجه است که طی آن، قاتلین همیشه به گناه خودشان اعتراف می‌کنند، و شخصی که مسبب اصلی قتلها بوده، به شیوه ای مرموز و شیطانی، نقش یک عامل را در جنایتها ایفا میکند، ولی او هرگز به دام نیفتاده است و ...؛تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 01/03/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ 13/12/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case! (So since major things happen in this book, don't 1) read this is as your first book first, and 2) try to reading spoilerish reviews like this one. But read a few others from the series, then read this one, for sure.“Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age”—Hastings, on PoirotI’m done, whew, having read all of 38 Christie Poirot novels (and a couple short story collections) in order of publication, over the past 2-3 years. I’ll listen again to And Then There Were None and will not read Christie again for awhile, I am sure.Christie, fearing for her life during WWII, wrote the last Poirot and Marple books in the early forties, and sealed them in a vault until just a couple years before her death, intending them to be the last novels, the last word, for her respective detective heroes. She much preferred Marple to Poirot, who in the sixties she had truly grown tired of, calling him "an egocentric creep". However, unlike Conan Doyle, Christie resisted the temptation to kill her detective off while he was still popular. She saw herself as an entertainer whose job was to produce what the public liked, and the public liked Poirot. Christie made a mistake in 1920 in introducing her Belgian detective as already retired, and then writing him as a main character for fifty more years!! So are we to surmise he retired at 40? 21?! Poirot returns to Styles in this one, where the first Poirot novel is set, written in 1920 when Christie was 30. Curtain was published in 1975, less than a year before she died, at 85, in 1976!! 55 years of writing Poirot!! Poor (and very rich, especially for an author) woman! Good for her and us, though, on the whole, as she emerged as the best selling author of all time.And no matter how old he is, we need our main man with the marvelous moustaches to be in full possession of his “little gray cells” right up until the end. Is this realistic? Well, either way he seems undiminished in speech and cognition without fail. The erosion of memory is a theme in this and many of the last books for the eighty-something Christie, but not for Poirot! He solves the crime, as always, though it is complicated and interesting how it happens and how it is revealed; I can’t exactly say how without spoilers.This book also features the return from the early Poirot-books Captain Hastings, a buffoon who again tells the story, clueless every step of the way. Keyholes figure in, amusingly.Since Curtain is the title, Christie frames her last book in terms of her major love, theater, and performance, and disguises. We even discover Poirot has been disguising himself for years, in a way. And Othello’s Iago figures in, so Shakespeare is her darling right to the end for inspiration. This may not be one of the very best of Christie's books, but it is clever, with better writing than we have seen for many years from Christie (because she wrote it in the forties!). She also doesn’t bother to pull it from the vault to revise it for continuity, grr. For instance, the supposedly older Poirot here has more problems with colloquial English than he has had in decades, consistent with a forties Poirot, not a seventies Poirot. But overall, it was good to bring back Hastings, and to end as we began, in Styles. And the killer—a serial killer—and how he kills, is original and interesting. It is a very good book in the Christie canon and because of the nature of the killer and because of the series of Big Surprises in the plot, I am going to bump it from 4.5 to 5 stars.A SPOILER ALERT about something very sweet that had never before happened, hidden in this link to the historically stuffy The New York Times, 6 August 1975, following the publication of Curtain:http://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/06/arc...My five star Poirots:The Murder of Roger AckroydPeril at End HouseMurder on the Orient ExpressCurtainMy four star Poirots:Lord Edgeware DiesThree Act TragedyThe A.B.C. MurdersMurder in MesopotamiaCards on the TableDeath on the NileSad CypressEvil Under the SunFive Little PigThe HollowAfter the Funeral

You Chose Your Own Adventure!You are the killer: you kill yourself. You deserve it. Or do you? Are you the hero or the villain? But what does it matter; in the end, death comes to us all. Your adventure is over.If you decide to reject your notorious life and start anew, choose http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 14 :- JAN 20204 STARS

Agatha Christie's swan song for her most famous character, Hercule Poirot, fittingly returns him and and his friend Arthur Hastings to the setting of her very first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Aside from the fact that it's Poirot's final case, a rather unusual twist and the recurring Othello theme make this one of Christie's more memorable works, if rather melancholy. It was interesting to find out that Christie originally wrote this novel during World War II, possibly fearing that she might not survive the war and wanting to give Poirot an appropriate send-off. Then she put Curtain in a bank vault for over 30 years, finally publishing it in 1975. It was her last published book before she died.Au revoir, Agatha and Hercule.

"For a murderer, my friend, is more conceited than any creature on this earth. A murderer is always more clever than anyone else- no one will ever suspect him or her- the police will be utterly baffled"The above quote is a perfect way to describe this mystery.I have been wanting to read this for some time now and what better day than Christie's birthday.I have now read numerous mysteries by Christie but there is no pattern (apart from a cozy setting)Each and every mystery, murder suspects, the end is unique and it baffles me as generally when you read many books by one author some things do become predictable.The only thing I have learnt after reading Agatha Christie books is that expect the unexpected and still you won't guess how shocking the unexpected can be!This is the last in the series of Poirot mysteries and I would recommend to read the first of this series- The Mysterious Affair at Styles before this as both the mysteries take place at Styles and there is a spoiler to the first book in this story."And suddenly from nowhere, a vague feeling of uneasiness and disquiet assailed me. It was not safe- it was not right- to plan happiness here. There was something malignant about the air of Styles"Poirot and Hastings come together in this last case together to catch X who is clever and sadistic as any murderer can be. There is a mix of lovely characters who make you trust them but doubt them at the same time."Everyone is a potential murderer- in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill- though not the will to kill"The ending is soo ingenious but soo complicated, I just had to sit back and digest it allThere is no way I could have guessed this. Did you?

Retko kojom kljigom sam toliko oduševljena da pamtim većinu detalja bez obzira na to što je pročitana pre više godina. Jednostavno, priča je toliko genijalna i fantastična.Herkul Poaro i kapetan Artur Hejstings se vraćaju u Stajls kako bi uhvatili ubicu kojeg je Poaro opisao kao savršenog. Hejstings biva upoznat sa nizom dokumenata o slučajevima u kojima je razjašnjeno ko je počinilac jer su se oni sami predali policiji i suočili se sa suđenjem, poput devojke koja je ubila nasilnog oca koji je godinama zlostavljao nju i njenu sestru. Zbunjen, Hejstings po prvi put čuje da je Poaro ušao u trag osobi X koja je umešana u sva ubistva iz pomenutih dokumenata, ali ono što razdražuje Hejstingsa je činjenica da Poaro ne samo da zna ko je tačno X, već je on sa njima, u Stajlsu, i sprema se na novo ubistvo, a Poaro ne želi da podeli sa njim identitet ubice. Ubrzo čudne stvari počinju da se dešavaju, a rasplet je potpuno neočekivan.

It would be wrong to say I loved this book (despite the 5 stars)... I hated it. I love Poirot so much that I couldn't bear to see him pass beyond the veil.That said, I consider this one a fantastic mystery - and one which could be resolved only this way, with the death of the detective (read the book, and you'll get what I mean). Many people have complained that the premise is far-fetched, but IMO, that is its main charm. And let me tell you, it's not all that impossible... (view spoiler)[There was a person in our family, an unmarried great aunt, who has caused at least one divorce and a prolonged estrangement between brother and sister, through subtle psychological suggestions, just for the heck of it. After this novel came out, we called her "Lady Norton"! (hide spoiler)]BTW, Christie had written this long back and kept it with her lawyer with instructions to publish it only after her death. Poirot got an official obituary in the paper once this book was published.