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Hallowe'en Party (published in 1969) is a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring her detectives Ariadne Oliver and Hercule Poirot.
Plot
The story opens with the novelist Ariadne Oliver attending a Halloween party for teenagers given by a widow, Rowena Drake. During this party Joyce Reynolds, a rather unpleasant girl, boasts that "I saw a murder once that I didn't know it was a murder when I saw it." Later that evening Joyce is found drowned in the bucket used for bobbing for apples. Mrs Oliver summons Hercule Poirot to solve the case. Poirot eventually discovers that Joyce had not seen a murder, but that she was just repeating the words of another teenage girl, Miranda Butler, and it was the murder of Olga Seminoff, done by party hostess Rowena Drake and gardener Michael Garfield.
"Hallowe'en Party"