Lever le rideau sur Hercule Poirot quitte la scène: Agatha Christie à la lumière de Pierre Bayard

Legend has it that the secret that Agatha Christie initially planned to reveal from beyond the grave was that of Poirot's guilt as the murderer in his last case. Written during the Second World War, Curtain was finally published in 1975, the year before Christie died. The secret that came out, however, served to silence others. Following the quest for (new) truth central to Pierre Bayard's detective criticism, this article will reveal that Poirot, instead of murdering a serial murderer, was himself murdered in order that quite another murderer might be saved.