Hickory Dickory Dock

Agatha Christie

• 05 maart 2007
• 9780007249640

Samenvatting:

A classic Poirot mystery read by Hugh Fraser.

Hercule Poirot doesn't need all his detective skills to realise something is troubling his secretary, Miss Lemon – she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of kleptomania at the student hostel in which her sister works is distracting his usually efficient assistant.

Deciding that desperate times call for desperate measures, the great detective agrees to investigate.

Unknown to Poirot, however, desperation is a motive he shares with a killer…

"The characters are as good as ever and there is plenty of entertainment."
'Times Literary Supplement'

A classic Poirot mystery read by 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?