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“A Haunting In Venice” Fails As An Adaptation, But Succeeds As A Ghost Story
Agatha Christie’s beloved Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is back on the case. But it’s All Hallows Eve at a midnight seance, and the real question is this: Could the murderer be a ghost?
By Jillian Schroeder4 min read
A Haunting in Venice, the third installment of Kenneth Branagh’s Hercule Poirot film adaptations, was released last weekend. It follows world-famous detective Hercule Poirot and his mystery writer friend Ariadne Oliver to a seance where a psychic medium tells them about a supposed murder – and then, one of their party is killed.