Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie

Overview

Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party—the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh!

In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.

At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.

That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence'. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062073952
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	06/14/2011
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	6,138
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Lexile:	760L (what's this?)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

What People are Saying About This

Peter Lovesey

“Agatha Christie needed to create an exceptional detective to outthink every reader and Hercule Poirot is the result.”

Editorial Reviews

Agatha Christie needed to create an exceptional detective to outthink every reader and Hercule Poirot is the result.” — Peter Lovesey, Anthony award-winning author of Stagestruck

“A thundering success….A triumph for Hercule Poirot.” — Daily Mirror (London)

From the Publisher

A thundering success….A triumph for Hercule Poirot.

Daily Mirror (London)

Agatha Christie needed to create an exceptional detective to outthink every reader and Hercule Poirot is the result.

Peter Lovesey

Agatha Christie is the champion deceiver of our time.

New York Times Book Review

Clever...engaging.

Times Literary Supplement

When a girl is drowned after telling mystery writer Ariadne Oliver that she witnessed a murder, Hercule Poirot finds himself looking into several unresolved deaths in an English town. John Moffatt exaggerates Poirot's Belgian accent, but his speech is always clear, with the inflections used to good effect in making observations about human nature and showing the way Poirot uses flattery and manipulation to gain the confidence of witnesses. It's the observations about people that make this Agatha Christie novel work as the author brings her cozy mystery style into the less-than-cozy 1960s, giving Poirot and Oliver the chance to react to changing times. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine

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