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A crime fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. It involves a murder at a Hallowe'en party and a web of secrets and lies involving the guests and the hostess.
Jul 3, 2011 · A 2011 TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, featuring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot. A girl is killed at a Hallowe'en party after claiming to have witnessed a murder in the past, and Poirot investigates the mystery with his usual flair.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Charlie Palmer
- 2011-07-03
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During the preparation of a Hallowe'en party, a girl named Joyce Reynolds tells everyone, including Mrs. Oliver, that she saw a murder once, but only recently realized that it was a murder that she had seen. At the end of the party, Joyce is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. With Mrs. Oliver's help, Hercule Poirot must unmask the real evil of ...
Adults at Apple Treesparty 1. Rowena Drake 2. Elizabeth Whittaker 3. Judith Butler 4. Mrs Goodbody 5. See also other people present at the party or during the preparations Children and youths at party 1. Nicholas Ransom 2. Desmond Holland 3. Joyce Reynolds 4. Leopold Reynolds 5. Ann Reynolds 6. Beatrice Ardley 7. Cathie Grant 8. Diana Brent Old Sin...
Robert Weaver in the Toronto Daily Star of December 13, 1969 said, "Hallowe'en Party...is a disappointment, but with all her accomplishments Miss Christie can be forgiven some disappointments...Poirot seems weary and so does the book." Robert Barnard: "Bobbing for apples turns serious when ghastly child is extinguished in the bucket. The plot of th...
References to other works
1. Superintendent Spence brought to Poirot the case solved in Mrs. McGinty's Dead and which they discuss in Chapter 5. The case is also recollected by Poirot in Chapter 3, when Poirot recalls Mrs. Oliver getting out of a car and “a bag of apples breaking”. This is a reference to her first appearance in Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, Chapter 10. 2. Miss Emlyn mentions in Chapter 10 that she knows of Poirot from Miss Bulstrode, who previously appeared as a character in Cat Among the Pigeons. 3. A letter...
Cultural references
1. The first half of the novel contains several discussions in which anxiety is voiced about the Criminal Justice System in Great Britain. This in part reflects the abolition in 1965 of capital punishment for murder. 2. The novel reflects in many respects its time of publication at the end of the permissive sixties, but nowhere more so than when a character uses the word "lesbian" in Chapter 15. 3. Judith Butler mentions the story of Judith from the Apocypha, and also the story of Jael and Si...
BBC Radio
The novel has been adaptedby BBC Radio.
Graphic novel adaptation
Hallowe'en Party was released by HarperCollins as a graphic novel adaptation on November 3, 2008, adapted and illustrated by "Chandre" (ISBN 0-00-728054-8).
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The novel was adapted as episode 2 of series 12 of Agatha Christie's Poirot with David Suchet, with Zoë Wanamaker reprising her role as Ariadne Oliver. Guest stars include Deborah Findlay as Rowena Drake, Julian Rhind-Tutt as Michael Garfield, Amelia Bullmore as Judith Butler, and Fenella Woolgar as Elizabeth Whittaker. Charles Palmer (who also directed The Clocks for the series) directs this installment, with the screenplay being written by Mark Gatiss (who also wrote the screenplay for Cat...
1969: Woman's Own, serialised in 7 abridged instalments 15 Nov - 27 Dec, 1969, illustrated with uncredited photographic montages.1969: Collins Crime Club (London), November 1969, Hardback, 256 pp1969: Cosmopolitan, abridged, Vol. 167 No. 6, December 19691971: Agatha Christie Crime Collection(omnibus), Paul Hamlyn, 1971.Czech: Viděla jsem vraždu(I Witnessed a Murder)Catalan: Les pomes(The Apples)Danish: Festen for de døde(The Eve of All Saint's Party)Dutch: De versierde bezemsteel(The Decorated Broomstick)A mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver. A girl who claims to have seen a murder is found drowned at a Hallowe'en party, and Poirot investigates the possible suspects and motives.
A Hallowe'en party turns deadly when a teenage girl is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver investigate a possible murder and a possible double-murder in this classic whodunit.
Hallowe'en Party is the perfectly themed Agatha Christie Mystery to listen to in October and is one of the last Poirot stories Christie wrote. It feels dated and a bit old-fashion considering the year it was published in. 1969, when Modern was a buzz word, this story has words such as Authoress, Disappearess, and Jollification .
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Jun 14, 2011 · Enjoy Agatha Christie’s beloved classic, Hallowe’en Party —the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh! In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.
