Halloween Party: Filming as A Haunting in Venice (Poirot)

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The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice soon to be a major motion picture.
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples
At a Halloween 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

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A thundering success a triumph for Hercule Poirot
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Author Bio

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.