The Clocks (Hercule Poirot)

EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Queen of Crime clocks in with a classic of untimely demise. At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases. EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Queen of Crime clocks in with a classic of untimely demise. At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases. Fiction,General,Mystery & Detective,Suspense,Mystery fiction,Detective and mystery stories; English,General & Literary Fiction,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),Mystery & Detective - General,Detective,Fiction - Mystery,Traditional British,Mystery & Detective - Traditional British,Mystery,Poirot; Hercule (Fictitious character),Private investigators - England,Mystery & Detective - Series 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.

the Little Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot Has A Problem - Four Clocks, All Set At 4:13 And Left At The Scene Of A Murder. The Witnesses Are A Blind Woman, A Young Secretary, And An Innocent Passerby. Poirot Must Solve This Case In Time, Before Another Life Is Lost.

Three unreliable witnesses and four clocks set at 4:13 are the only things detective Hercule Poirot has to help him solve a case before someone else is murdered. Reissue. Hercule Poirot, the relentless Belgian detective, investigates when a body is found in Miss Millicent Pebmarsh's sitting room with four strange clocks set at 4:13. TO use police terms: at 2:59 P.M. on September 9th.