Hickory Dickory Dock (April 07,2011)

Name: Hickory Dickory Dock (April 07,2011)
Rating: 4.11 (40870 reviews)
Author: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot • Book 31

by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Hugh Fraser

4.11 ABR Score (40.9K ratings)

★ 3.77 Goodreads (40.2K) ★ 4.6 Audible (699)

6h 3m Released 2006 Mystery

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Why Listen to This Audiobook?

Hugh Fraser narrating Poirot is a bit like Hastings finally getting to tell the story himself.

Great if you want: a classic Christie puzzle with a quirky student-hostel setting
Listening experience: cozy and compact — a brisk, self-contained mystery
Narration: Fraser brings unmistakable warmth from years living in this world
Skip if: you prefer Christie's grander, more complex plots

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About This Audiobook

A series of thefts at a London student hostel seems beneath Hercule Poirot's attention until the strange pattern of the stolen items — and the character of the thief — suggests something more sinister than simple kleptomania. Christie constructs the novel around a single residential community, using the compressed setting to build pressure until a murder makes the stakes unavoidable. The academic environment gives her ample opportunity for social comedy alongside the darkness.

Hugh Fraser, Captain Hastings in the long-running television series, narrates with an intimacy that suits the cozy-domestic scale of the novel. His voice carries the warmth of someone thoroughly at home in Christie's world, and his Poirot — rendered from the outside, through Hastings's admiring perspective — benefits from Fraser's affection for the material. At just over six hours, this is a well-paced afternoon's listening.