I personally enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend this to all adult and young adult readers. Hickory Dickory Dock is an ingenious mystery classic. Poirot is also further motivated to solve this mystery because of the fact that he cannot afford his secretary making another mistake in typing and filing letters! Throughout the novel, it is up to Hercule Poirot now, whether to believe in these stereotypes and fake imagery that is put up by the all “colored” students or believe in what he holds to be true and identify the culprit before it is too late. Even though Poirot is a foreigner to England, he seems quite acquainted with people of different nationalities. He is a retired detective and it is his retirement that motivates him to take interest in what seemed like a mischief in the beginning which later on becomes a complicated murder mystery. Some “colored” characters show unreasonable respect towards the 'Britons' which helps divert the suspicion and blind the reader into identifying the true culprit.Like most Christie Classics, Hercule Poirot is the detective for this mystery. The class system and discrimination prevail during the time period, hence the background of these characters is important to the text as it sets the suspenseful mood as all characters are expected to act a certain way because of their stereotypical description. Valerie Hobhouse, Celia Austin, Patricia Lane, Gopal Ram, Nigel Chapman and, Ahmed Ali are some of the students at the hostel.

Poirot's determination to solve this deceiving mystery makes this novel more suspenseful.Based in the 1930s in England, in a crowded student hostel on the Hickory Road, most of the characters that live at the hostel come from different nations. When inquiries are made, it is discovered that every student has something to hide. Hubbard, the warden of the hostel to help find the culprit.

Hercule Poirot, a Belgian sleuth is obsessed with “disappearances” at a hostel on the Hickory Road where the students and the reader understand not to judge a person based on first acquaintance. Light bulbs, chocolates, a slashed rucksack, flannel trousers and a diamond ring that is later found in a bowl of soup, huh? Hickory Dickoy Dock by Agatha Christie set in 1930s UK is a mystery novel entailing crime and wisdom.

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