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A review by thenovelbook
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
2.0
To begin with, if the title puts you off (it does me), this is not a creepy or supernatural mystery. The party is merely the setting, and the party itself is kind of old-fashioned and non-freaky. That said, it’s still a darker mystery than some in the Christie canon because it involves children. So proceed with caution depending on your own ability to shelve the tragic events and turn to the puzzle.
I had a good chunk of this one figured out quite early on, although there did turn out to be even more to the solution that I hadn’t seen. I’d be surprised if most readers didn’t grasp at the partial solution almost immediately; the efforts to misdirect are a bit less successful than one is accustomed to from Christie.
I had a good chunk of this one figured out quite early on, although there did turn out to be even more to the solution that I hadn’t seen. I’d be surprised if most readers didn’t grasp at the partial solution almost immediately; the efforts to misdirect are a bit less successful than one is accustomed to from Christie.