In a Halloween party a thirteen year old girl boasts of having witnessed a murder and by the end of the party the same girl is found murdered. Hercule Poirot is called to investigate the murder by his friend Oliver . Now he has to first decide whether he is looking for a murderer or a double murderer.
This novel presents an exciting mystery but the way of story telling is really bad. I was so much bored at times by the dragging pace at which the story was progressing that I began to wonder whether Christie employed somebody else to write this one.As expected in Poirot mysteries, the end is very much unpredictable but the last two chapters of the novel are highly unrealistic. One notable point is the presence of Ariadne Oliver, the mystery novel writer , who is the alter ego of Agatha Christie herself.
Read this only if you like mysteries in general and Christie's work in particular. 3 out of 5.
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