Christie could not know that hanging would be abolished for murder in Great Britain in1965, twenty years after this book was finished.Ĭurtain is clearly clued and intricate. She usually set her novels in ‘real time’. Understanding that Curtain was written in the 1940s, explains its anachronistic flavour.
Christie allowed Curtain to be published in 1975 she died four months later, in January 1976. The novel remained in a bank vault for over 30 years. The exact date Christie wrote Curtain is unknown, as the manuscript and the pages in her rough books are undated. Christie, Mallowan (her second husband), and Christie’s daughter, Rosalind all survived the war, although sadly Rosalind’s husband did not he was an RAF Pilot and was shot down in 1944.įrom more recent evidence in Christie’s ‘Secret Notebooks’, John Curran meticulously documents the seeds of the plot for Curtain are in nine separate note books. Christie sent the manuscript out of London, for safe keeping. Laura Thompson in her Christie biography asserts that Christie decided to write a final Curtain for Poirot, looking back at his twenty year career.
Her house in Sheffield Terrace, Kensington had narrowly escaped the bomb that flattened the rest of the street in October 1940. It was written three decades earlier when she was in her prime.ĭuring the blitzkrieg in London in the Second World War in the 1940’s, Agatha Christie realised she might be killed. Surprised that Christie can suddenly write a cracker of a book in her 80s? Curtain ✰✰✰✰✰ Explanation of the Poirot Score:
0 kommentar(er)
