Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie, Mallory (DM) (Editor)

Overview

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to Woodleigh Common, where a Hallowe'en party is under way for a group of local adolescents...one of whom is a young girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue. When the girl falls victim to a tart game of apple bobbing gone wrong, Ariadne wonders just how tall her latest tale was. Which of the party guests wanted to keep her quiet is a question for her partner in crime, Hercule Poirot. But unmasking a killer this Hallowe'en isn't giong to be easy—for there isn't a soul in Woodleigh who believes the late little storyteller was even murdered...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062573285
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	272,330
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.81(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 is the champion deceiver of our time.

New York Times Book Review

Clever...engaging.

Times Literary Supplement

“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

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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