When a curator is found murdered, Ruth Galloway and Detective Inspector Nelson track down links between the murder, Aborigine skulls, and a drug-smuggling operation that forces Ruth to question her loyalties.

A family gets ready for Halloween, preparing costumes, making goodies for the school party, and carving jack-o'lanterns. Halloween jokes and rhymes are interspersed throughout the text.

On Halloween night five little monsters take a broom out for a flight! The monsters on the broom fly round and round, all through the town"--

"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 doubler murderer..."--P. [4] of cover.

"The littlest book-lovers and their families will enjoy following the gentle cow as she ventures out into the moonlit night, trying to discover who it was that replied to her 'BOO' with a 'BAA.' The surprise ending is certain to delight everyone--young or old, feathered or furry. Told and illustrated with Sandra Boynton's celebrated charm and pizazz, Boo! Baa, La La La! is a wonderful, not-scary treat, with all the markings of a Halloween classic....

Hepzibah the witch raises a baby girl to cast spells and ride a broomstick but the child still wants to be friends with other human children.

"At the end of Yellow Street, in a ruined junkyard of a house, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy and use the deadly treats to maim or kill dozens of innocent children. But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers--an innocent himself, in his own...

Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary, including his little sister's costume, his morning snack, and the big house on the corner.

Told in interconnected stories, three witchy best friends brew a love potion on Halloween that is said to produce a love that will last forever as long as it is sealed by true love's kiss before the stoke of midnight.

Is it a witch or a blonde little girl hiding in the bushes of the spooky house when the three bears go trick or treating?