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| | | | | (6/10 stars) "Nothing could be more agreeable than a juicy English apple-And yet here were apples mixed up with broomsticks, and witches, and old-fashioned folklore, and a murdered child." Everyone in Woodleigh Common agrees that Joyce Reynolds is not a nice little girl. So when she brags of having witnessed a murder, fellow guests at... | |
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| | | | | "I saw a murder once." And so thirteen-year-old Joyce Reynolds signs her own death warrant. Later that night, at a Hallowe'en party (as observant readers of the title may well have deduced), Joyce is found dead, drowned in the apple-bobbing tub. But Joyce was known to be a liar - surely nobody believed her tale.... | |
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| | | | | It's been five years since I have read this novel and to be honest there wasn't much I could remember about it, other than it featuring both Ariadne Oliver and Hercule Poirot. The primary death was the other element I recalled, which makes wonder whether the opening chapters of the book, are the best part... | |
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| | | Martin Edwards has been writing outstanding crime novels since 1991. On top of that, he has collated a number of collections of short stories, helped set up The Murder Squad and is one of the leading experts on the history of crime fiction. But this is a bibliography, not a biography, so here's the links... | ||