Pension Vanilos is a novel of Agatha Christie, putting in scene the detective Belgian Hercule Poirot and published in 1955.

Editions

• Titrated in Hickory Dickory Dock in the British original edition.
• Titrated in Hickory Dickory Death in the American edition.

The intrigue of the novel

A series of unexplained flights takes place in a boarding house for students of Hickory Road. Hercule Poirot investigation, discovers that a kleptomaniac concealed many objects without much importance, but that the disappearance of the other mask a secrecy much more complicated and dangerous.

Comments

The name Vanilos does not appear in the anglophone editions. It is indeed a name introduced by Albert Pigasse, founder and director of the collection '' the Mask '' with the Bookstore of the Fields-Élysées, to cross short, in the years 1950, with the dispute emanating of a person having for mother a lady Nicoletis (the name of the owner of the pension, in the English editions).

It is the first novel in which the character of Miss Lemon is described a little at greater length that in the rare news in which the secretary had appeared. One learns there on this occasion his first name, Felicity, and the existence of a sister, Mrs Hubbard, which holds a pension for students (this two information causing the amazement of Poirot, at the beginning of the novel, the detective having always regarded its secretary as not being really human).

Televised adaptation

The novel was the object, under the same title , of a televised adpatation, in 1995, within the framework of the televised series Hercule Poirot , with in particular David Suchet (Hercule Poirot), Philip Jackson (the Japp inspector) and Pauline Moran (Lemon Miss).

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