Linnet is aware that Jacqueline is trying to avenge her. We get to know Jacqueline is stalking Linnet and her husband Simon everywhere they go and there is this tension between them. While Linnet is on honeymoon with her husband Simon on the Cruise going to Egypt, Jacqueline is also shockingly present on the same cruise.

The story revolves around Linnet and her old friend now enemy Jacqueline. The book opening is from the talks around Linnet Ridgeway and how the spectators are in awe while some are jealous of how fortunate she is. With him, there are several characters and the most important one is Linnet Ridgeway. Hercule Poirot is a detective who is on a vacation on a cruise that is going to Egypt. Since I have not explored the mystery fiction genre a lot I enjoyed this book.ĭid a bit of research and found out that 2 characters are often noticed in Agatha Christie’s books and one of them was present in this book too. It is possible that A Haunting in Venice will transplant Hallowe’en Party’s small-town story to a bigger city to make the concentration of criminals seem more believable since the occupants of Woodleigh Common are a veritable rogue’s gallery in the Christie novel.Reading Death on The Nile By Agatha Christie. After Joyce’s death, Poirot’s friend Ariadne Oliver calls him to Woodleigh Common to look into the mysterious murder, and before long, Poirot has uncovered an entire seedy underbelly in this idyllic rural burg. 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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