Halloween masks hide secrets, both petty and passionate. Behind one mask also hides a murderer. Crickle Hythe, Oxfordshire, 1936. Ruby Dove is depressed. So Fina and Pixley lift her spirits with a lighthearted party, though it soon has deadly results. At a Halloween gala in Ruby's village of Crickle Hythe, long-standing grudges and insignificant slights rise to the surface like the bobbing apples awaiting the snap...