Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween - ceramic pumpkins and my cross-stitch
ornaments.

One of my favorite things to do is to read holiday themed stories around Christmas-time, but I don't usually think to read Halloween stories at this time of the year. However, I couldn't resist re-reading one of my all time favorites, Agatha Christie's Hallowe'en Party featuring Hercule Piorot and Ariadne Oliver.  A murder is committed at a children's party where the victim, one of the girls at the party, is drowned in the bobbing for apples bucket. I never was a fan of bobbing for apples and now I have a really good excuse not to like it.