Agatha Christie's Poirot, and the first of the final series to be filmed. Hugh Fraser again returned to the role of Hastings, following a ten-year absence; stars such as Alice Orr-Ewing (Judith Hastings), Helen Baxendale (Elizabeth Cole), Anne Reid (Daisy Luttrell), Matthew McNulty (Major Allerton), Shaun Dingwall (Dr Franklin), Aidan McArdle (Stephen Norton) and Philip Glenister (Sir William Boyd-Carrington) were among the other cast. The programme was aired in Britain on 13 November 2013, and later on Acorn TV on 25 August 2014. The adaptation mentions only the Litchfield, Sharples, and Etherington murders. Margaret Litchfield is hanged during the opening credits, whereas in the novel she dies in an asylum. The killer is not labelled 'X' as in the novel, the purpose of the label being achieved in other ways. Otherwise, the adaptation remains extremely faithful to the novel. With the exception of The Mysterious Affair at Styles, set in the First World War, the rest of the ITV Poirot series are set in the 1930s, regardless of when the novels were written, or the contemporary features in each of the novels; this last story sets the year as 1949. On 19 December 2013, Barnaby Walter of The Edge listed the adaptation and Poirot's death scene at number 2 on the list of the Best TV Drama Moments of 2013. In 2015, Curtain was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie for its 67th Emmy Awards, but eventually lost to Bessie. Publication history 1975, Collins Crime Club (London), September 1975, Hardcover, 224 pp 1975, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), Hardcover, 238 pp, 1976, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, 280 pp 1976, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 325 pp, 1977, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 188 pp 1992, G.K. Hall & Co. large-print edition, Hardcover, In the US the novel was serialised in Ladies Home Journal in two abridged instalments from July (Volume XCII, Number 7) to August 1975 (Volume XCII, Number 8) with an illustration by Mark English. References External links Curtain at the official Agatha Christie website 1975 British novels Collins Crime Club books Hercule Poirot novels British novels adapted into television shows Novels first published in serial form Novels set in the 20th century Novels set in Essex Novels set in hotels Works originally published in Ladies' Home Journal