Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party
This is clearly a later Christie work, as it spends a lot of time lamenting about current society and its travails (particularly KIDS THESE DAYS: murderous children, as well as children getting murdered bc they got a ride from a stranger), and several times mentions that things would be better if more people were institutionalized! Anyway, mystery-wise, this is pretty solid: a little girl is murdered at a Halloween party after bragging about having once /witnessed/ a murder, so one of the party guests--a mystery novelist (who apparently appears in several of Christie's books) calls in her friend Poirot to track down the killer! There are plenty of suspects, as Poirot has two murders to solve, and has no idea what the first one was. The solution is a mixture of "yeah, that's what I expected" and pure goofiness. This book in general is very goofy, though I think a lot of that is the very dated attitudes about . . . everything. I am curious to read the other Christie books featuring Ariadne, though. B.
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