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Author | Agatha Christie |
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Language | English |
Genre | Crime fiction |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | November 1969 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 256 (first edition, hardcover) |
Preceded by | The Clocks |
Followed by | Elephants Can Remember |
Hallowe'en Party is a work of detective fiction by English writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club in November 1969[1] and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.[2][3] This book was dedicated to writer P. G. Wodehouse. It has been adapted for television, radio, and most recently for the film A Haunting in Venice (2023).
The novel features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. A boastful girl at a Hallowe'en party tells Mrs Oliver she once witnessed a murder; the same girl is later drowned in an apple-bobbing bucket, and Poirot must solve a two-pronged mystery: who killed the girl, and what, if anything, did she witness?