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A Haunting in Venice: Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie

14 reviews

vixenreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Some of the twists in the end do not hold a lot of water, but this is still a cozy mystery book for autumn, with a distinctive cast of characters, with Hercules Poirot continuing his status as one of literature’s greatest detectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Infidelity, Suicide, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, Sexism, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Be aware that this text contains child murder, attempted blackmail, attempted poisoning, drowning, forgery, children witnessing murder, and pathological lying.

kloughlin's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Minor: Infidelity and Suicide

emilywemily6's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Reading this book made me want to read more complex mystery stories like Christie’s work, but this book has some downfalls. The dialogue was very repetitive and contained a lot of tasteless assumptions that were common during the time period. But people went on and on about how delinquent the youth of the day were and how mentally unstable people were roaming the streets because asylums had no space and blaming all the murders on one or the other population. It was tedious, insensitive, and happened so often throughout the book. I also felt like the pacing was generally slow but consistent until the last 30 pages when the story ramped up and then you were still learning facts about the mystery on the last page of the book. It ended too abruptly for me. I love how all the details came together, especially all the scapegoats and red herrings, but the story itself had a lot of filler in the form of insensitive and ridiculous comments.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Car accident, and Classism

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Grief

rbudd24's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Murder

Minor: Suicide

meezan's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Suicide and Murder

miastr's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Suicide, and Car accident

painteed_12's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

"Dlim-dlão, no poço a encontrarão"

Um livro que requisitei para ler, por causa do filme baseado no livro que vai estrear nos cinemas. É um livro bastante interessante, sobre uma rapariga que afirma ter visto um assassinato e depois é encontrada morta numa festa de Halloween... 

Como sempre, só o detetive Hercule Poirot, chamado por uma velha amiga escritora de romances policiais, Ariadne Oliver, irá desvendar este caso!

Mais um livro misterioso e maravilhoso de Agatha Christie.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Sexual harassment

heini's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

1.0

It felt like every. single. thing. was repeated at least twice. I was almost starting to think it was some sort of number three-motif but no.
Very boring and very predictable. 

A child as a murder victim is always horrible to read about, but the way Agatha Christie (repeatedly) described the murder felt out of place. 
Although she does this often, describes and introduces everyone matter-of-factly by their "flaws" (everyone is ugly, annoying, stupid, horse-faced, too thin or too fat, too young or too old, doesn't dress well etc.) it is uncomfortable when she does it to children. She treats her cut-out characters the same, adult or not.

I had to check twice the year this was published (1969) since there was so much talk about The Good Old Days not only from Poirot but the same exact thoughts repeated by every slightly older character. 
Especially saddening was the way they talked about mental illness and increasing crime rates. 

Sometimes it's hard for me to discern what are Christie's own personal thoughts, what's critique and what's from a charcter. Poirot is especially unlikeable when trying to teach moral lessons:

in his opinion a ten year child got what he deserved (murder by drowning) because he Understood the consequenses of blackmailing someone for money. Ffs.

I've been listening to Poirot audiobooks too much this year. Would not recommend. Christie is enjoyable in small doses, otherwise all her weird fucked up thoughts (anti-semitism, misogony, sexism etc.) just stand more and more out book by book and you realize it's all negativity, all the time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Murder

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

cocopeia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Mental illness, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

fanboyriot's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I picked this up at random but honestly didn’t really care for it.  There was detailed settings immersing you into the world but there was no character development, the overall plot fell flat, and it was incredibly misogynistic.  There were also some terms through I that I didn’t like and while it might have been published 2001 it’s still pathetic.  Honestly, I was just waiting for it to end.  I only finished it out of spite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Blood, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Body horror, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Murder