‘Eight letters.’ĭr John Franklin splutters that it’s “probably an anagram”, but Boyd Carrington nails it as PARAMOUR. ‘Even love-or third party risk?’ I read out. Here’s how Hastings reads it from his armchair to a gathering of characters: So, before we decide whether this is a good read – how do the crosswords hold up? It takes a while before Iago appears, but – devotees of crosswords will be thrilled to hear – he emerges when the narrator Capt Hastings reads some clues, ostensibly from the Times. So it was that Curtain became, much later, Poirot’s last case. London theatre was struggling through that war a lonely Christie was becoming enamoured of Othello and, as Laura Thompson wrote in her biography, “Iago, in particular, obsessed her.”Īs she imagined Iago “seeing Othello suffer as he has suffered”, she wrote a draft of Curtain and, rather than having it published, kept it in a drawer in case another air-raid put paid to her and left her daughter needing an income. It was eventually published in 1975, but Agatha Christie wrote it during the second world war, after her Kensington home had been Luftwaffed. Curtain comes with the subtitle Poirot’s Last Case.
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