Curtain

A mystery novel by Agatha Christie. Christie wrote the novel during the WWII days while she was not sure whether she would be alive at the end of the war. She wanted to end her Hercule Poirot series nicely, thus this novel was written. Luckily she did not die during WWII and so did not publish it until 1975; by then she understood that she could write no more novels and at last "Curtain" saw the daylight. Poirot had not worked with Hastings since 1937, but in this book: the last one featuring Poirot, the two comrades were united again; the place where the story sets in is the same as that of Poirot's first adventure perhaps in keeping with Eliot's timeless quote: "In my beginning is my end". It is a gripping fiction, touching as well.