Characters in Hallowe'en Party

Supporting characters

• Hercule Poirot

  Methodical and aging, he treats the child's boast as a clue rather than a fantasy

  Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder on the Orient Express

• Ariadne Oliver

  Shaken by the death she half-witnessed, she becomes emotionally invested in the case

  Also in Cards on the Table, Mrs. McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, Third Girl, Elephants Can Remember, Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

• Joyce Reynolds

  A boastful girl whose claim of having seen a murder is ignored until it is too late

• Rowena Drake

  Admired in the village for her charm and efficiency

• Michael Garfield

  Designed a sunken garden in the village and is preoccupied with beauty

• Judith Butler

  Mother of Miranda, with a guarded past of her own

• Miranda Butler

  A perceptive, nature-loving girl who missed the party through illness

• Superintendent Spence

  Now living with his sister, he supplies Poirot with records of past local deaths

  Also in Taken at the Flood, Mrs. McGinty's Dead

• Elspeth McKay

  Angular and plain-spoken, she is a sharp source of local gossip and background