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Hallowe’en Party
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- Hugh Fraser
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 16 October 2006
- Run Time
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
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What to expect
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice – soon to be a major motion picture.
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples…
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…
Read by Hugh Fraser who played Captain Hastings in the popular TV series.
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“A thundering success… a triumph for Hercule Poirot” Daily Mirror
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Details
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Narrator
- Hugh Fraser
- Duration
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 October 2006
- ISBN
- 9780007249558
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction
Synopsis
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…
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