a series of random and seemingly insignificant theft at her sister boarding house have miss lemon quite agitate . a ring and light bulb and a rucksack and a lighter and a stethoscope and a shoe there seem to be no rhyme or reason to any of it . miss lemon ask her employer and the great belgian detective hercule poirot and to look into the matter . but what poirot see be something far more sinister than miss lemon could have imagine . and poirot fear be confirm when one of the student live in the boarding house if find murder . it up to poirot to bring a killer to justice . hickory dickory dock be a solid and but not spectacular and entry in the long running poirot series . i appreciate how faithful the script be to agatha christie original story . i realize that certain liberty have to be take and but i appreciate the effort nonetheless . the major point of the mystery be all there the petty theft and the boarding house and the student and the ripped rucksack and and and of course and poirot ability to see something sinister go on before it actually happen . with a few exception and the cast of student be almost a i picture them . damian lewis and jessica lloyd standout among the group . as mush a i always enjoy david suchet poirot and i get a real kick out of the episode with phillip jackson inspector japp and pauline moran miss lemon . this episode be a real treat a miss lemon get more screen time than usual . finally and i enjoy the use of the ever present mouse a an observer of the activity in the hostel . it a fun little play on the hickory dickory dock title . i realize while re watch hickory dickory dock just what a tremendous influence agatha christie work be on the highly stylized italian mystery film and or gialli and of the 60 and 70 . take the murder of mrs. nicoletis a an example . if you be to bump up the graphic nature of the scene and you would have something straight out of an early 70 giallo . in fact and the entire plot of hickory dickory dock could have be use in a giallo . it just convolute and interesting enough to have work .