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Customer Reviews: Average Rating:  Rating :  - The Mice Will Play
Agatha Christie's famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is known for his 'gray cells', his ability to deduce the solution to the most puzzling of crimes. In "Hickory Dickory Dock" his gray cells are at work trying to solve the riddle of theft and eventually murder at a youth hostel. At first, Poirot can see little connection between the stolen objects, until he understands their order of disappearance and the broader scheme behind it all.
Poirot is alerted to the strange happenings in Hickory Road by his secretary Miss Lemon, whose sister, Mrs. Hubbard, serves as the overseer of the hostel. Not wishing to call in the police and hoping that matters will right themselves naturally, Mrs. Hubbard allows Poirot to investigate the matter. After giving a talk to the students, one young girl confesses to the thefts, but not to all items that were stolen. When she is found dead a few days later, an apparent suicide, Mrs. Hubbard knows that murder has taken place. In the close confines of a youth hostel where the walls are paper thin and the locks are all the same, someone must know something and a murderer is certainly at large within the house.
"Hickory Dickory Dock" is a fast-paced read, an enigma of a mystery that unravels over the course of the entire novel. Indeed, only Hercule Poirot would notice the links between certain clues while the reader is left clueless. It just goes to prove what a masterful weaver of mystery Agatha Christie was, how even the most intricate plot involving some familiar details readers of other works will recognize, is unpredictable but has a tidy and satisfactory explanation in the end. + See Full Customer Review |  |
