The Myster of Eatum Hall

The Mystery of Eatum Hall was the first “mystery” picture book I have read in a long, long time. I’m not really sure how I felt about it though-it was a little hard to follow. Basically, this couple (a pig and a chicken) are invite to Eatum hall for weekend of free gourmet food and when they get there, no one else is there, but they decide to stay the weekend there. Before they leave, they go into this “bandstand” but get out right away because it was “poorly constructed”. We learn, by the last page, that if they would have stayed in the bandstand, they would have been put in a chicken pie that the wolves eat!
Even the story was a little difficult and confusing to follow, I really liked the illustrations part of the book. Most the pages are really dark, so we sort of get this eerie, mysterious feeling that fits the mood well. I also thought it was clever at the end to have the wolves sitting around a huge pie ready to eat, inferring that it would have been the chicken and pig in there if they had stayed in the bandstand.