The Hallowe’en party for schoolchildren who are over 11 has been a success. The contests have been finished, the winners defined and the prizes given for everything: bobbing for apples, cutting the flour cake and the best decorated broom. After the Snapdragon everyone should go home – there is nothing more to do here. Only nobody can locate that thirteen-year-old girl, Joyce, who always boasts… annoying, isn’t it, that she delays everyone else?
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Another one of Hercule Poirot cases – this time, his friend Captain Hastings is here too. The setup is a little unusual – before each murder is committed, Hercule Poirot receives a letter from the murderer, challenging him – and then, when it’s actually committed, Poirot can do nothing about it. Not every day we see this great man fail!
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Another one of those great Hercule Poirot mysteries. A young, beautiful lady hires the famous detective to do, in her own words, something fantastic.
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What can I say? This is one of the greatest detective novels written by one of the best known detective story writers. It features Hercule Poirot – the famous old little man from Belgium with a great moustache, neat clothes and incredible grey cells that never fail him.
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