Guests at New Mouse City's Grand Hotel are being frightened by something that claims to be a ghost, and the fiftieth book in the series sets out to establish what it actually is.
Detective Hercule Poirat handles the nerve while Geronimo handles the worrying, and between them the clues get collected. The book treats the supernatural as a question to be tested rather than accepted, which gives it a quiet argument for looking at evidence, wrapped inside a comedy that never slows down.
A closer look:
• A hotel haunting investigated instead of simply believed
• Hercule Poirat paired with a determinedly anxious narrator
• Evidence and logic used as the tools that solve the case
• The fiftieth entry in a series children already trust
A strong pick for independent readers around seven to ten and for families who read together in the evening. Stocked by Boipoka.