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Hickory Dickory Dock

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

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Hickory Dickory Dock

Auteur(s): Agatha Christie
Narrateur(s): Hugh Fraser
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 An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel is not normally the sort of crime that arouses Hercule Poirot's interest. However, the warden of the hostel is his secretary, Miss Lemon's sister, and efficient Miss Lemon is less than efficient when worried. To set her mind at ease, and decrease the number of mistakes in her typing, he agrees to meet with Mrs. Hubbard.

When he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, and a diamond ring (which was stolen, then discovered in a bowl of soup) - he congratulates Mrs. Hubbard on a "unique and beautiful problem". But Poirot soon has more than a possible petty thief on his hands when murder enters the picture.

©1983 John Michael Mallowan; 1983 Peter Andrew Mallowan; 1955 Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan; 1955 William Edmund Cork (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, London Détectives classiques Suspense Fiction Détective Crime

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"The infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction." (The New York Times)
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Was ok. Typical murder mystery, got a bit bored but it was ok. Not really into murder mysteries but was hoping it would grab me.

Typical murder mystery.

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Like earlier Agatha Christie novels, this one provides an interesting glimpse into the time in which it was written. The 1950s were not as conservative as we in later generations have been taught to believe!

Overall, this is another great, interesting, enjoyable novel :-)

This time, however, Hugh Fraser’s voicing of characters falls short, including one which ends up sounding racist. His American accent is all right, but not quite good enough to fool Canadians or Americans. His Black African (but not South African) accent starts off sounding like a decent representation of commonalities among many of those accents. HOWEVER, at some point, Fraser loses track, and, in the last chunk of the book, this African sounds a lot like an Indian :-( (By the way, Fraser’s Indian accents are pretty good, managing to stay away from the all too common, racist “bidi bidi” accent [for an explanation of this term, please see Aasif Mandvi’s autobiography, No Land’s Man, available as an Audible Audiobook read by the author].

Great book, but Hugh Fraser’s accents go awry

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Not a huge AC fan but this was the perfect listen for a long flight. Excellent narration made the difference.

A fun listen

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Hugh Frazier is one of the main actors in Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot films. this story is very intriguing like all of her stories and he brings out all the different voices and intonations that make this an amazing success! I must hear for all Agatha Christie Poirot lovers!

Super narration

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loved the story
it was well narrated and very entertaining.lots of twists and turns awesome

great yarn

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Very enjoyable listening, audio performance was outstanding. Greatly detailed mystery capturing one's attention from the start.

True Poirot!!!

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I cannot stress enough, to the extent of which I enjoy every Agatha Christie novel that is narrative by Mr. Hugh Fraser! Just a magical performance. He does the Poirot part of the whole thing impeccably. The French accent is just like the one from the show, that David Suchet did so brilliantly, which makes total sense because they played in the show side-by-side for so many years in taping the it. The novels are extra extraordinary and unique on their own, but coupled with Mr. Fraser’s creativity, and brilliant in portrayal of every voice for the different characters, well it’s just a magical experience in the end and I cannot recommend them enough!

All Agatha Christie novels should only be narrated by the one and only Hugh Fraser, AKA Captain Hastings!

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I generally like complicated plots in mysteries but there is such a thing as too contrived and in my opinion this book qualifies. A rare miss by AC.

too contrived

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Great book suspense and intriguing story. I enjoyed the story line. Good read I would read another book by this author.

Hickory hickory dickory dock

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long enough to get monotonous. melodramatic with predictable characters. well performed with interesting performance. okay...

what you would expect from Agatha

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