"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 doubler murderer..."--P. [4] of cover.

No one believes a little girl when she insists that she has witnessed a murder until she herself turns up drowned, and Hercule Poirot sets out to catch the killer.

Costumes, monsters, and food abound at the tempting, teasing, terrible Halloween party that happens once each year.

"In Halloween Party Murder by Leslie Meier, Ty and Heather Moon turn their Victorian home into a haunted house, but the fun turns to fright when Heather overdoses and Ty find himself accused of murder. In Death of A Halloween Party Monster by Lee Hollis, partygoers stumble upon Boris Candy's corpse, and it falls to Hayley Powell to discover who wanted to stop the man from clowning around permanently. In Scared Off by Barbara Ross, three girls having...

Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

On Halloween Faraday Folsum runs across a party of witches, ogres, and gremlins that are a bit too real for comfort.