Hercule Poirot Mysteries Hallowe'en Party: Inspiration for the 20th Century Studios Major Motion Picture a Haunting in Venice, Book 35, (Paperback)

from AlexTheHunn

A superb Hercule Poirot mystery that delights, charms and inevitably strings the reader along. I never figure out Christie's mysteries and this one is no exception.

from Elizabeth

love to read mysteries. in looking for Agatha Christie novels. this one was missed.

from Cassandra2020

Mixed feelings about this one. Not one I've come across on TV (yet), so didn't have any knowledge of who was going to be guilty. However, I did feel it was quite 'signposted' - quite a few of the main clues leapt out at me. Obviously not going to say which as that would spoil it for anyone readin...

from mrtall

In Hallowe'en Party, one of the latest of the Poirot novels, our protagonist teams up with the scatty mystery writer Ariadne Oliver to solve an unlikely murder: a schoolgirl is drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket at a Halloween party. As is the case with Christie's other late work, there's a lot ...

from jnicholson

Some beautiful imagery of gardens and of the emotions they evoke give this mystery its charm. A child is drowned at a party, after boasting that she had seen a murder - but all the evidence suggests that she did not see any such thing, so why would she be killed? Christie makes it all come togeth...