title: Curtain: Poirot's last case
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies. The dramatic circumstances of his death are such that Scotland Yard is called in -- in the person of Troy's long-absent husband, Chief Detective-Inspector Roderick Alleyn!
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  ## Chapter 9
  
  
  THE SECOND DEATH
  
  
  Though I did not understand the reason for Poirot's agitation, I knew him well
  enough to be sure that he had a reason for it.
  
  
  We arrived at Rosedew Mansions, Poirot sprang out, paid the driver and hurried
  into the building. Miss Adams' flat was on the first floor, as a visiting-card
  stuck on a board informed us.
  
  
  Poirot hurried up the stairs, not waiting to summon the lift which was at one
  of the upper floors.
  
  
  He knocked and rang. There was a short delay, then the door was opened by a
  neat middle-aged woman with hair drawn tightly back from her face. Her eyelids
  were reddened as though with weeping.
  
  
  “Miss Adams?” demanded Poirot eagerly.
  
  
  The woman looked at him.
  
  
  “Haven't you heard?”
  
  
  “Heard? Heard what?”
  
  
  His face had gone deadly pale, and I realised that this, whatever it was, was
  what he had feared.
  
  
  The woman continued slowly to shake her h