Review by Nick Fuller
3/5
Conventional, but entertaining Christie; indeed, it is a tribute to her art that even when the setting (country house fête), characters (nouveau riche squire, brainless wife, devoted secretary, enigmatic old woman and neurotic young man, and sinister foreigner), red herrings and even the plot itself (related to "The Companion" and Evil Under the Sun) are highly conventional, she still manages to entertain. Poirot functions; Mrs. Oliver is in splendid form; and the murderer is not too difficult to spot. In short, quite pleasant — in the way that Miles Burton is pleasant: soothing and innocuous, but scarcely extraordinary.
Note similarities to Hallowe'en Party, Nemesis and Sleeping Murder.
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