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An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel arouses Hercule Poirot's interest when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalised items. These include a stethoscope, some lightbulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic powder and a diamond ring later found in a bowl of soup – he congratulates the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique ...
Hickory Dickory Dock After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal [ 1 ] and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. [ 2 ]
Hercule Poirot, Miss Lemon, James Japp, Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes (mentioned) Mrs McGinty's Dead: Novel 1952 Hercule Poirot, Ariadne Oliver: After the Funeral: Novel 1953 Hercule Poirot, Mr. Goby Hickory Dickory Dock: Novel 1955 Hercule Poirot, Miss Lemon: Dead Man's Folly: Novel 1956 Hercule Poirot, Ariadne Oliver, Miss Lemon: Cat Among the ...
Poirot is on hand with his superb English, based, one supposes, on the middle line in the French lessons in the Children's Encyclopaedia, but the little grey cells are rather subdued." He set up the basics of the plot and then continued, "The solution is of the colossal ingenuity we have been conditioned to expect but a number of the necessary ...
Hickory Road – in Hickory Dickory Dock, Agatha Christie novel. Hickory Dickory Dock, one of Agatha Christie's detective stories featuring Hercule Poirot, is set in Hickory Road in London. A version of the story was made by Carnival Films for London Weekend Television's "Poirot" series. First broadcast in February 1995, the start of the ...
Hickory Dickory Dock Destination Unknown is a work of spy fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1954 [ 1 ] and in US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1955 under the title of So Many Steps to Death .
Other variants include "down the mouse ran" [2] or "down the mouse run" [3] or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down". Other variants have non-sequential numbers, for example starting with "The clock struck ten, The mouse ran down" instead of the traditional "one".
This story with Hercule Poirot was the basis of the novel Sparkling Cyanide, in which Poirot was replaced by Colonel Race and the plot was heavily altered. No magazine publication of The Harlequin Tea Set has yet been traced; the story was first published in book form in the UK in Winter's Crimes #3 in 1971 by MacMillan ( ISBN 0-333-12871-0 ).