The Festival of pumpkin

the Festival of the pumpkin ( Hallowe' in Party in the anglophone original editions) is a Detective novel written by Agatha Christie, published in 1969, putting in scene the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the author of detective novels Ariadne Oliver, car-caricatures of Agatha Christie.

This novel received a new French title, the Crime of Halloween , at the time of its republication in the collection the Integrals” in 1999.

The intrigue of the novel

Mrs Drake organized at it one Halloween evening. The children take part in the preparations, with the assistance of Ariadne Oliver. A young girl in the well hung language, Joyce, praises herself in front of Mrs Oliver to have attended a true murder. Everyone laughs to him with the nose: Joyce cannot any more what invent to be made interesting. The festival is a true success but, after the departure of the guests, one discovers the corpse of Joyce in the library. Mrs Oliver then calls upon the services of Hercule Poirot.

Comment

Mrs. Oliver also meets in other investigations of Poirot:

Charts on table , in 1936, where it appears for the first time
Mrs McGinty died , in 1952
Poirot plays the game , in 1956
the Third Girl , in 1966
a memory of elephant , in 1972

But it also appears with other characters, like Mr. Parker Pyne, in 1934, in two news and the novel the pale Horse .

Editions

Hallowe' in Party , Hakes, London, 1969
Hallowe' in Party , Dodd Mead, New York, 1969
the Festival of the pumpkin , Bookstore of the Fields-Élysées, coll “the Mask”, n° 1151, Paris, 1971
the Crime of Halloween , in Integrals - Agatha Christie: Volume 12: Years 1965-1970 , Bookstore of the Fields-Élysées, Paris, 1999. ISBN 2-7024-2497-X

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