Characters in "Hickory Dickory Dock"
- Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective
- Inspector Sharpe, the investigating officer
- Miss Felicity Lemon, Poirot’s secretary
- Mrs. Christina Nicoletis, the part-Greek, dipsomaniac owner of the student hostel at Hickory Road
- Mrs Hubbard, Miss Lemon’s sister and the warden of Hickory Road
- George, Poirot’s valet
- Ahmed Ali, an Egyptian student resident at Hickory Road
- Akibombo, a West African student resident at Hickory Road
- Celia Austin, a resident in full-time employment at Hickory Road (chemist in the dispensary at St Catherines Hospital)
- Leonard "Len" Bateson, a student resident at Hickory Road (medicine and surgery)
- Nigel Chapman, a student resident at Hickory Road (diploma in Bronze Age and mediaeval history as well as Italian, studies at the University of London)
- Sally Finch, an American student resident at Hickory Road (Fulbright Program)
- René Halle, a French student resident at Hickory Road (English literature)
- Valèrie Hobhouse, a resident in full-time employment at Hickory Road (co-owner of Sabrina Fair, a beauty parlour)
- Elizabeth Johnston, a Jamaican student resident at Hickory Road (jurisprudence)
- Chandra Lal, an Indian student resident at Hickory Road (political science?)
- Patricia Lane, a student resident at Hickory Road (diploma in archaeology)
- Geneviève Maricaud, a French student resident at Hickory Road (English literature)
- Colin McNabb, a student resident at Hickory Road (post-graduate in psychiatry)
- Gopal Ram, an Indian student resident at Hickory Road (political science?)
- Jean Tomlinson, a resident in full-time employment at Hickory Road (physical therapy at St Catherines Hospital)
- Maria, the Italian cook at Hickory Road
- Geronimo, Maria’s husband, also a cook
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