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…

Read by Hugh Fraser who played Captain Hastings in the popular TV series.

© 2006 HarperCollins (Audiobook): 9780007249558

Release date

Audiobook: 16 October 2006