I purchased this book for my own collection.
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: October 3, 2026 (first published 1969)
Summary:
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…
My thoughts:
February’s theme for the #ReadChristie2025 Challenge is Authors & I decided to go with one of the alternative suggestions, Halloween Party, because I already had the book sitting on my shelf.
This is actually a reread for me & I’m glad I had the opportunity to pick it up again because the first time I read it I didn’t really love it. I’m not sure if it was timing or headspace or what, but this time around, I really enjoyed it. Maybe it was because I was reading for a purpose, but I felt more invested in the story & the characters. And even though I had already read this, I could not remember how it ended…so I was surprised!
This is one of the later Hercule Poirot books & I just love the way he goes about solving cases. The “Author” of the story was Ariadne Oliver, a mystery novelist, who actually appears in 6 Hercule Poirot books, this being the only one I’ve read so far. In this book, she is the one to get Poirot to help solve the murder of the young girl.
I’m glad I reread this one and can definitely see how this could be a fun book to reread in October every year!
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