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Hallowe’en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Brigid says: A young partygoer is murdered while bobbing for apples at a Halloween party in this classic from the queen of mysteries. (I found this game terrifying as a child and even more so now!) It’s quickly apparent the danger is far from over and luckily Detective Poirot is on the case. I found this tale to be more grim than others in the series but it is quite twisty and memorable. Plus, the recent Kenneth Branagh movie adaptation makes for a great scary movie night pick. While this is the thirty-sixth novel featuring the famous investigator, each one is a standalone and can be read in any order. Content warnings apply.
About the Book
Publisher’s description:
When a Halloween Party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirots to unmask a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery, Hallowe’en Party.
At a Halloween 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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