Hickory Dickory Dock | Agatha Christie | 1956 | Uitg.: The Book Club, London |

Hickory Dickory Dock | Agatha Christie | 1956 | Uitg.: The Book Club, London |†An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the kind of crime that piqued Hercule Poirot’s interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and destroyed items ó including a stethoscope, old flannel pants, a box of chocolates,††a cut-through backpack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup ó he congratulated the jailer, Ms. Hubbard, on a “unique and beautiful problem.” The list made no sense at all. But, Poirot reasoned, if this was just a petty thief at work, why was everyone in the hostel so scared?