![]() With help from retired Superintendent Spence, Poirot makes a list of deaths and disappearances for the last few years in Woodleigh Common: Ariadne Oliver, attending the party while visiting her friend Judith Butler, calls on Hercule Poirot to investigate the murder and Joyce's claim. When the party ends, Joyce is found dead, having been drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. When everyone is preparing games and decorations for a Hallowe'en party held at Rowena Drake's home in Woodleigh Common, thirteen-year-old Joyce Reynolds tells everyone attending she had once seen a murder, but had not realised it was one until later. Wodehouse.Ī review at the time of publication and another 20 years later both felt this story was not one of Agatha Christie's best, 'a bitter disappointment', a novel littered with loose ends and unrealized characters. Soon, the girl herself is found murdered, and Oliver calls in Poirot. A girl at the party claims she witnessed a murder, which, at the time, she was too young to realize was a murder. The novel features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver, who begins the novel in attendance at a Hallowe'en party. ![]() In preparation for decimalisation on 15 February 1971, it was also priced on the dustjacket at £1.25. The UK edition retailed for twenty-five shillings. ![]() Hallowe'en Party is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1969 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]()
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