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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 ]
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 .
Agatha Christie used this style of title in other novels, including One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, Hickory Dickory Dock, A Pocket Full of Rye, and Crooked House. [9] Hercule Poirot mentions the celebrated case of Hawley Harvey Crippen as an example of a crime reinterpreted to satisfy the public enthusiasm for psychology. [10]
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot.It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 [1] and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921.
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".