Hallowe'en Party the Agatha Christie Mystery Collection

Name: Hallowe'en Party the Agatha Christie Mystery Collection
Rating: 3.96 (108600 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 36

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Hugh Fraser

3.96 ABR Score (108.6K ratings)

★ 3.56 Goodreads (106.5K) ★ 4.44 Audible (2.1K)

6h 27m Released 2012 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

A child claims to have witnessed a murder, nobody believes her, and she's dead before the party ends — Christie at her most unsettling.

Great if you want: a classic whodunit with a genuinely dark, disturbing premise
Listening experience: measured and atmospheric — cozy surface, creeping unease underneath
Narration: Hugh Fraser played Hastings on TV, so his Poirot-world intimacy is unmatched
Skip if: mid-series Poirot feels repetitive to you — this is late Christie

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About This Audiobook

At a children's Halloween party, a thirteen-year-old girl named Joyce makes a boastful claim: she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her. Hours later, Joyce is found dead, her face submerged in the apple-bobbing tub. Hercule Poirot is called to Woodleigh Common to find out whether the murder is connected to whatever Joyce actually saw — and whether one is dealing with a single killer or two. Agatha Christie's thirty-sixth Poirot novel, published in 1969, is a late-career mystery that makes the most of its unsettling premise.

Hugh Fraser is Arthur Hastings in the Poirot television adaptations, and his narration carries that intimate relationship with Christie's world into the audio performance — he reads the novel with the authority of someone who has spent decades in Poirot's company. At just under six and a half hours, the production is a model of classic mystery pacing: unhurried, methodical, and built around the pleasure of a puzzle constructed with care. Essential for Christie devotees.