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Hallowe’en Party

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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A classic Christie mystery. Read by Hugh Fraser who plays Hugh Fraser in the popular TV series. At a Hallowe’en 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…

©2008 Agatha Christie (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Amateur Sleuths Classics Crime Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Murder Scary

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"A thundering success… a triumph for Hercule Poirot" (Daily Mirror)
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I am a big fan of Agatha Christie's novels. Hugh Fraser does a really good job of bringing the characters to life and telling this story with easy expertise.

Another good who-done-it

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I loved this audiobook,the narration was fantastic I’ve gone back to it over and over.

Brilliant

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Unfortunately, while I love the Poirot books, I do feel as Christie got older her creative imagination did falter a little, and I was able to half guess the solution about half way through which is a cardinal sin for a detective novel; the reader should never feel more intelligent than Poirot! However, you may have noticed I said half guessed as there was still a little twist, and therefore I still rate this reasonably.

Good, but slightly predicatable

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loved the book, has a very satisfying ending but the foreign accents in the voice acting sound forced

Ties up well in the end!

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First published in 1969, this is a strange but intriguing story. Some clues nestle between red herrings galore, and even if you think you've got it, don't be so sure!

Christie's alter ego, Ariadne Oliver is on top form, giving great insight into Christie's own methods. It's also interesting to think that she appears as Poirot's sidekick more often than Hastings but the TV adaptations never reflect this..

Odd, amusing, confusing but good

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