Something odd i happening at the local youth hostel on the Hickory Road. Detective Hercule Poirot find it "quite intereting". One of it reidents is a thief. But no ordinary thief given the corious items missing: a dinamond ring, tube of lipstick, a stethocope, and a cookbook. A pretty crime? Hardly. in fact this bit of mischiefbha turned quite deadly. For a murder has no occurred on Hickory Road. The students are afreid. The staff is appalled. And Poirot is wondering... Who's next?

