Poirot, using a wheelchair due to arthritis, and attended by his new valet Curtiss, will not share the name of the previously unsuspected person, using X instead. Poirot alone sees the pattern of involvement. Poirot calls the recently widowed Hastings to join him in solving this case. Four of these suspects have since died (one of them hanged) in the case of Freda Clay, who gave her aunt an overdose of morphine, there was too little evidence to prosecute. It is the last novel published by Christie before her death. Sleeping Murder, published posthumously, is her final novel.Ī specific person is unsuspected by police or family of the victims of involvement in five previous murders, in all of which there was a clear suspect. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937.

It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house.

The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. 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. 1975 copyright Dodd, Mead & Company publishers, New York Book Club Edition hardbound very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.

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