Superintendent Wilding

In the novel Hickory Dickory Dock, Superintendent Wilding is a senior Scotland Yard officer belonging to the Narcotics Squad. At a meeting, he told Poirot and Inspector Sharpe that for some time, the volume of drugs being smuggled in seemed to have gone up, beyond what the authorities could keep pace with. He therefore welcomed Poirot's observation that students living in hostels could have been used as unwitting mules. Wilding thought that this was plausible.

Superintendent Wilding does not occur in the 1995 ITV adaptation of the novel. There, the contraband being smuggled was diamonds only and no drugs were involved. Wilding's role is replaced by a Customs officer John Casterman.