Books with title Hickory Dickory Dock

Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot. Inside front cover: A simple case of theft turns into triple murder! The girl was dead-clearly a case of suicide. "Or was it suicide?" Hercule Poirot mused. Applying his shrewd mind to the disorderly facts and events surrounding the senseless thefts and the subsequent death of the girl, Poirot realized that the suicide had really been murder. "Was it part of a larger scheme?" he wondered. Before he could act, there was a second murder ... and then a third. Which of this international assortment of characters would stand in the dock?. ****On the Back Cover of the Bookd**** There was trouble at the multinational Hostel for Students. It seemed there was a thief on the prowl. Hercule Poirot went to investigate, and there found several very bright young people - one of whom was also very dead! ****From the New York Times**** "The Christie Fan of longest standing, who thinks he knows every one of her tricks, will still be surprised by some of the twists here."

Normally, a mere outbreak of petty thefts in a youth hostel wouldn’t be enough to interest the great detective Hercule Poirot. However, the warden of the hostel is sister to Poirot’s secretary Miss Lemon, and concern for her sister is interfering with Miss Lemon’s typing abilities. Poirot finds himself with an intriguing puzzle on his hands, and before long, murder increases the mystery. The fastidious Belgian sleuth is brought to life by the voice of veteran British actor Hugh Fraser.

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup - he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique and beautiful problem'. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?

An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup - he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique and beautiful problem'. The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened?