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  • A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  • Written by: Agatha Christie
  • Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
  • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (92 ratings)

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Hickory Dickory Dock

Written by: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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Publisher's Summary

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

What the critics say

"The infallibly original Agatha Christie has come up with a new and highly ingenious puzzle-construction." (The New York Times)

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A fun listen

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

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too contrived

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.

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great yarn

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

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Great book, but Hugh Fraser’s accents go awry

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].

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what you would expect from Agatha

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

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Hickory hickory dickory dock

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

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True Poirot!!!

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

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