Hallowe'en Party: Inspiration for the 20th Century Studios Major Motion Picture A Haunting in Venice

Agatha Christie

Oct 2006 · Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 36 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming September 2023!

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...

Ratings and reviews

Never will I look at apples the same way again. Agatha Christie sure thinks outside the box, or in this case, outside the Hallowe'en Party. With twists in the novel that you wouldn't even think are correlated with the murder at the Hallowe'en Party, Hercule Poirot does it again! Agatha Christie is a well deserved classic and everyone should read at least one of her books!

It was pretty boring and there was too much talking.

Better than most of her books for the artful presentation of the characters,

About the author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.