Halloween Party

Writer Ariadne Oliver is invited to her friend's house, where preparations for the Halloween celebration – a fun carnival for kids and adults – are in full swing. One of the guests is a teenage girl known for her love of telling outrageous stories about various mysteries. Now she has amazed everyone with a tale of having witnessed a real murder! No one believed her. And suddenly, that very evening, she was found... drowned in a bucket of water and apples! Damned strange. Who needed the girl's death? Perhaps she truly saw something that posed a danger to someone present at the party? In any case, Hercule Poirot, who agreed to help Mrs. Oliver, his old acquaintance, faced the challenging task of unmasking the killer and revealing their identity to the public.

Agatha Christie is the most published author of all time after Shakespeare. The circulation of her books is second only to the works of Shakespeare and the Bible. Over a billion copies of Christie's books have been sold in English and the same amount in other languages. She is the author of eighty detective novels and story collections, twenty plays, two memoirs, and six psychological novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple have forever become exemplary heroes of the detective genre.
This dark, eerie book was dedicated by Agatha Christie to the well-known British humorist, author of the stories about Jeeves and Wooster, P.G. Wodehouse. In particular, the dedication expressed gratitude for him being "so kind, saying that he liked my books".