![]() ![]() At 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. If so, there is not just one death for him to investigate, but two. Hallowe'en Party is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in November 1969. Assuming that Joyce was killed because of what she said, Poirot knows he must find out if the teenager was telling the truth. Distraught, Ariadne decides to call upon the services of her old friend Hercule Poirot to solve the case. Convinced that she is just trying to attract attention, no-one believes her - but later she is found tragically drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. One of the teenagers, Joyce Reynolds, boasts that she once witnessed a murder, although she didn't realise at the time what she'd seen. During her preparations for the party, the conversation turns to Ariadne's grisly novels. Famous crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, visiting her friend Judith Butler in the little town of Woodleigh Common, is invited to a Hallowe'en Party put on by society hostess Mrs. Halloween Party Book Summary and Study Guide Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Halloween Party When teenager Joyce Reynolds is drowned in a bucket of bobbing apples on a Halloween party arranged by the famous crime author Ariadne Oliver, she calls for her old friend, the Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot, to solve the case. John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in a BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. ![]() Categories Adult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations, Cosy Crime ![]()
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