Curtain vs Elephants Can Remember: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Détectives, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, English Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, England
Curtain
wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was…
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Elephants Can Remember
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that…
The verdict
- Readers rate Curtain highest: Curtain 4.1 · Elephants Can Remember 3.7.
- Curtain has the widest readership — 52013 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Curtain | Elephants Can Remember | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (52013) | 3.7 (51485) |
| Hardcover | 3.9 (96) | 3.4 (112) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | 3.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (149) | 4.0 (80) |
Reception
| Curtain | Elephants Can Remember | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 52013 | 51485 |
| Editions | 112 | 110 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 35152 | 25560 |
| Reading it now | 1444 | 1424 |
| Written reviews | 3734 | 3704 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2480 | 2522 |
| Pages | 232 | 224 |