The Clocks : A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. Mrs. Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name -- yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks. And neither woman seems to know the victim. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb's ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 -- his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot. Review Hercule Poirot is one of those rare fictional characters who came to shape my thinking as both a lawyer and a crime novelist. (James Grippando, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Swyteck Novels ) Here is the grand-manner detective story in all its glory. (New York Times Book Review ) Christie addicts will cherish this book. Total absorption is guaranteed. (Sunday Times (London) ) Review 'Deliberately fantastic.' Times Literary Supplement 'Superlative Christie! extremely ingenious.' The Bookman 'A sure-fire attention-gripper naturally.' Saturday Review 'Here is the grand-manner detective story in all its glory.' New York Times Combinrd ESI : 34 of 41 Calc Series A (group): Hercule Poirot Mystery Number of Words in Auth: 2 Formats : EPUB ABook : E_Only Title Parms B to H : - - - - - - Calc New : Grouped.Hercule Poirot Mystery. Calc Force Series : .Hercule Poirot Mystery Title First Parm : Clocks Calc ESI Part 3 : 41 Calc ESI Part 2 : of Calc ESI Part 1 : 34 Test Search : Clocks / Agatha Christie Enter Series Index : 34 of 41 Record Notes : Perm IE IC 09 01 14 Calc Series Group : Hercule Poirot Mystery Series Genre : Hercule Poirot Mystery Test Text Series Index: 34 Raw Title : Clocks Number Of Formats : 1 Title Length : 6 Title Parm A : Clocks Record ID : 1911 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_E.Hercule Poirot Mystery.Cmd.34 of 41._.ICBF Series A : Hercule Poirot Mystery Calc New Series : Hercule Poirot Mystery.... Calc ESN Part 2 : of Calc ESN Part 3 : 41 Calc ESN Part 1 : 34 Series Parm B : 34 Series Parm A : Hercule Poirot Mystery Custom Series : SIPY.Hercule Poirot Mystery.Cmd.34 of 44._.ICBF Number of Authors : 1 Title Pre Pound : Clocks ES Suffix : _ Title After First Parm: Clocks ES Name : Hercule Poirot Mystery EBook : Have Uncomma Author : Agatha Christie ES Genre : Cmd Compare Author : eq ES Group : Serified_E Test Compare Series to Entered: eq ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Mystery Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : isbn:9780061740503 Single Author : Agatha Christie Sorted Author by LN, FN: Christie, Agatha Num of Aut : 1 Title Pre Parend : Clocks Title Pre Colon : Clocks Author Parm A : Agatha Christie Number of Author Names: 2 Calc ESI Combined : 34 of 190 Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic, The Clocks, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman's house. Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent—not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good detective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Poirot. But there's a murderer on the loose, and time is ticking away....