Mary Strokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse when she saw the body of a young woman dressed in a black coat, black gloves, no hat and an eternity ring set with diamonds in her ear but when she took Detective Sergeant Frank Abbott to the wood, the body had vanished.
When the corpses of a lusty school official and her security-guard lover are discovered in a school broom closet, and the prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, the woman's husband, proclaims his innocence, Detective J.P. Beaumont goes into action.
When software seller Tadeo Kurobashi, an amateur student of Samurai history, is found dead with a Samurai sword in his hand, hara-kiri is suspected, but an error in the ancient ritual leads Detective Sergeant J. P. Beaumont to suspect murder.
A bloodstained stiletto heel might seem an unlikely instrument of death but when it's found near an equally bloodstained and very dead man it gives Seattle Homicide Detective J.P. Beaumont the lead he needs and an unnerving feeling that there's more to come.
Hickory Dickory Dock is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie. It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The novel is notable for featuring Poirot's efficient secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, who had previously only appeared in the Poirot short stories.
