At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘evil presence’. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer. And was it even true that she once witnessed a murder? Unmasking a murderer isn't going to be easy for Hercule Poirot—there isn't a soul in Woodleigh who believes this little storyteller was even murdered.
Hallowe'en Party is the 36th book in the Poirot series of detective novels, however, they do not need to be read in order.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages.
(A special thank you to book club member, Julie Griffin for the suggestion.)