![]() ![]() He dispensed with the detail of the explanation that Poirot gives, early in the book, for his decision to return to Styles Court, and some viewers may, I suppose, have found this one of the more perplexing stories in the series,but I felt Elyot struck a very good balance between giving clues and not giving the game away. It can't have been easy to adapt such an unorthodox story, but Kevn Elyot made an extremely good job of it. I think the culprit's modus operandi is absolutely fascinating, while the locked room scenario and the final startling revelation are classic devices. This is not a view universally shared, I must admit, but some of the ideas in the book strike me as breathtaking. I read it shortly after it was published, and I thought then - and I still think - that it is one of her finest detective novels. I am full of admiration.Ĭurtain, as most people know, was written when Christie was at the height of her powers, even though it was not published until the Seventies. What a brilliant actor he is, and how wonderfully he has interpreted Poirot, transforming him from a collection of unlikely idiosyncracies into a character we actually care about, and not just because of his little grey cells. I don't want to include any spoilers at all in this particular review, but suffice to say that David Suchet's performance as the great detective was one of his very best. Agatha Christie's Poirot came to an end last night with Curtain: Poirot's Last Case, and we were treated to a suitably dark production of Kevin Elyot's screenplay. ![]()
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