Hallowe'en Party
At a Hallowe'en party, Hercule Poirot aids mystery writer Ariadne Oliver in an investigation into the murder of a young girl-who may have witnessed a murder herself. But unmasking the killer proves more daunting than bobbing for apples.
At a Hallowe'en party, Hercule Poirot aids mystery writer Ariadne Oliver in an investigation into the murder of a young girl-who may have witnessed a murder herself. But unmasking the killer proves more daunting than bobbing for apples.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425129630 (0425129632)
Publish date: November 1st 1991
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 240
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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