Hallowe'en Party
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en 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....
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A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples...
At a Hallowe'en 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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780007120680 (0007120680)
Publish date: 2001-09-03
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Hercule Poirot (#36)
I´m afraid, this will never be one of my favorite Poirot novels. The mystery is good and pretty dark, actually, and I like that you can tell that Poirot is old and kind of weary. This book gave me a bit of a nostalgic feeling while reading it. The constant youth bashing in this book was really gra...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged. In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novels into...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged.In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novel into the...
In my mind, courtesy of all those Miss Marple and Poirot TV series, I think of Agatha Christie as writing contemporaneously about England between the wars, still hanging on to its empire and with upper-class privilege unchallenged.In reality, Agatha Christie continued to publish crime novel into the...
I think this may be the first Christie book that I've read that was set later in her career. It was interesting to see the changes in dialogue and story line in a book first published in 1969 and those by the same author that were originally published a couple of decades or so earlier. It was also...
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