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sarahandika 's review for:
Hallowe'en Party
by Agatha Christie
- I would say this my least favorite yet of Agatha Christie’s novels out of the ones I have read (And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient eExpress, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.) I picked it up because I saw that ***A Haunting in Venice*** was partially based on it, and love going into movies having read the books they are based on. As is usual for a Hercule Poirot novel, we have his eccentrities featured alongside his order and method in uncovering clues and murderers. In this case, a young girl Joyce, is murdered at a Halloween party aftet boasting that she once witnessed a murder. No one took her seriously at the time, but clealry, there has to be a link to the past? Poirot then has to research all past unsolved murders to try and find the link all while interviewing all who were present at the party.
- What failed to click for me with this mystery, was Agatha’s insistence of continually bringing up people with mental health problems, as would be expected from that period, in a very insensitive way. It was just a reminder of one of the pitfalls of reading books written decades ago. And then, I don’t think this was one of her most brilliant mysteries as I was able to figure out half the story. And the other half that didn’t click for me, I wasn’t even mad at, because I found the explanation to be too absurd and farfetched. Like, huh? I just didn’t believe it. Especially the antics at the end.
- So yeah, not much to say apart from the fact that I think it wasn’t one of the best whodunnits she has ever come up with, and the motive at the end felt a little too ridiculous to me.
- What failed to click for me with this mystery, was Agatha’s insistence of continually bringing up people with mental health problems, as would be expected from that period, in a very insensitive way. It was just a reminder of one of the pitfalls of reading books written decades ago. And then, I don’t think this was one of her most brilliant mysteries as I was able to figure out half the story. And the other half that didn’t click for me, I wasn’t even mad at, because I found the explanation to be too absurd and farfetched. Like, huh? I just didn’t believe it. Especially the antics at the end.
- So yeah, not much to say apart from the fact that I think it wasn’t one of the best whodunnits she has ever come up with, and the motive at the end felt a little too ridiculous to me.