Hallowe'en Party

by Agatha Christie, Tina Honsel (Translator)

Woodleigh Common è un sonnacchioso paesino alle porte di Londra. Nella bella casa di Rowena Drake alcuni ragazzi stanno festeggiando Halloween quando viene fatta una scoperta la tredicenne Joyce è stata assassinata. Ariadne Oliver, la nota giallista, presente al party, si precipita dall'amico Poirot e lo convince a interessarsi del poco prima della morte, infatti, Joyce si era vantata di aver assistito a un omicidio, ma nessuno le aveva creduto. Possibile che invece la ragazza, famosa per essere una gran bugiarda, dicesse la verità? E che il colpevole abbia deciso di chiuderle la bocca per sempre? Tra i migliori e più amati romanzi di Agatha Christie, la narrazione di Hallowe'en Party, finora noto come La strage degli innocenti, riflette da un lato l'eco inquietante di antiche leggende e atmosfere gotiche, dall'altro i profondi mutamenti sociali e culturali dei turbolenti anni Sessanta. Immutabile, saldo come una roccia, rimane l'inarrivabile Poirot, con la sua ironia unica e le sue inimitabili cellule grigie.

250 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 29, 2025

About the author

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)