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Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case A Hercule Poirot Mystery Contents Title Page One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Postscript About the Author The Agatha Christie Collection Related Products Copyright About the Publisher One I Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience, or feeling an old emotion? “I have done this before. . . .” Why do those words always move one so profoundly? That was the question I asked myself as I sat in the train watching the flat Essex landscape outside. How long ago was it that I had taken this selfsame journey? Had felt (ridiculously) that the best of life was over for me! Wounded in that war that for me would always be the war—the war that was wiped out now by a second and a more desperate war. It had seemed in 1916 to young Arthur Hastings that he was already old and mature. How little had I realized that, for me, life was only then beginning. I had been journeying, though I did not know it, to meet the man whose influence over me was to shape and m......