Poirot suspects that a single person is involved in five previous murders. In all cases, there was another clear suspect. … See more

• Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, now withered by age, but still thinking
• Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirot's friend, recently a widower, father of four grown children including Judith… See more

In a review titled "The last labour of Hercules", Matthew Coady in The Guardian, on 9 October 1975, wrote that the book was both "a curiosity and a triumph". He repeated the tale of the book being written some thirty … See more

Being their last case together, mention is made of earlier cases. Hastings became involved in the first Styles investigation in 1916, at which time he was thirty years old. He married at the end of the next Poirot novel, … See more

Christie wrote the novel in the early 1940s, during the Second World War. Partly fearing for her own survival, and wanting to have a fitting end to Poirot's series of novels, Christie had the novel locked away in a bank v… See more