Kavita's Reviews > Hickory Dickory Dock

In this book, Christie goes truly international with Indian and African characters. *gasp* They all live merrily in a student hostel run by Miss Lemon's sister, Mrs. Hubbard, until there is a spate of senseless robberies. Poirot is astounded when he sees four mistakes in Miss Lemon's work, unheard of ever before. She confides that she is worried about her sister, which shocks Poirot even more to hear that she has a sister! Good ole Poirot takes up the case to ensure Miss Lemon makes no further mistakes.

But the case proves intriguing on its own, or as Poirot calls it 'a unique and beautiful problem'. He meets the students and gradually a picture emerges. Then there is a murder, another senseless act. And then another murder. It's become more serious.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story and the characters. It was rather nice to see young people studying and working instead of just hanging around playing tennis, like in so many other books. The murderer was rather interesting too. Loved the appearance of Miss Lemon, whom I had grown to love in the series. All in all, another great book by Christie.