Inspiration for the 20th Century Studios Major Motion Picture A Haunting in Venice | Paperback | Mystery & Detective / Traditional 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. 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...