The story starts off in a Halloween party where a girl named Joyce was found dead with her head drowned in a bucket of water mysteriously. A detective story starts here. One of the guests, Mrs Oliver asked the help from her friend the detective Hercule Poirot to solve the murder. The more Poirot tried to investigate about the incident, the more secrets he found out. The murder of Joyce was thought related to another …showed first 75 words of 352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 352 total…and doesn't just interview random people but there's a motive behind. His method of solving a crime is through interviewing different people who had different point of views, and by that he judges who was telling the truth. In my opinion, I find this book fairly interesting. Many part of the book was only Poirot interviewing different people, which give me time to think and organize the crime yourself, and even to solve the murder.