Haunting in venice (HarperCollins Publishers)

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 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...