![]() However, Hallowe’en Party doesn’t shy away from this taboo.Ģ022’s Christie homage See How They Run referenced The Mousetrap, whose enduring success could have encouraged Christie to explore a darker storyline in Hallowe’en Party. The death of a child is relatively rare in Christie’s stories which, while spooky, only occasionally take a turn for the outright bleak. The novel opens with the 13-year-old Joyce Reynolds telling anyone who will listen that she once witnessed a murder before Joyce herself is then drowned in an apple-bobbing tub during the eponymous event. A later Poirot story, Hallowe’en Party, also has the dubious distinction of being one of Christie’s darker stories featuring the character. ![]() However, outside of its setting, A Haunting in Venice could still stick fairly close to the story of the Hallowe’en Party. ![]()
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