Authoress Ariadne Oliver invited in the house of friend, where in the height of preparation to celebration of Halloween - merry carnival for kids and adults. One of guests is a girl-teenager, known for that adores to tell absurd histories about every secrets. Here and now she staggered society a recital that once saw the most real murder! Nobody disbelieved her. And suddenly in the same evening she was found. sunk in a bucket with water and apples! Devilish strange. Who did may need death of girl? Maybe, did she really see something, that presented a danger for someone from present on an evening-party? In any case, Эркюль Пуаро, that undertook to help a missis Oliver, to the old acquaintance, got up before a not simple task to blow off a carnival mask from a killer and show his person to society.This gloomy, ominous book was devoted by Agatha Christie to the known British humorist, author of stories about Дживсе and Worcester of П.Г. Вудхаузу. In particular, in dedication there was gratitude for that "he was so kind, speaking that he like my books"."If speech about drama with murder - here is nobody изобретательней Christie".Sunday TimesThe "missis of Christie does impossible history the absolutely real".The Times