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Just finished "Hallowe'en Party", by Agatha Christie, which was originally published in 1969.
Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver is staying with her friend, and helps out at a Hallowe'en party that a woman in the village has organised for the local children. At the party, a girl says that she once witnessed a murder, but nobody believes her. At the end of the evening, however, the girl is found murdered: drowned in a bucket of water. Ariadne Oliver asks her friend, Hercule Poirot, to help in the investigation.
Quite a difficult book to read in many ways, with its theme of child murder (and children who commit murder), but well written, and a well-constructed plot. Recommended.
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