The Long Halloween was, to a large extent, a mystery solved. We can quibble here and there about who committed which murder when, but for the most part, there’s little left to discover. Even the Batman’s arc in the Long Halloween saga is mostly closed, from trusting and feeling betrayed by Harvey Dent in Long Halloween to trusting again, by partnering with Robin, at the end of Dark Victory.

I was tempted to write, “In this way, Batman: The Long Halloween: The Last Halloween is not much of a mystery,” but that’s not entirely true. It is a mystery, in that things happen without immediate explanation and it’s left to the audience to figure out what’s happening. Indeed I was quite taken with the book, parceling it out over a couple of days and spending no small amount of time trying to determine the culprits.