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The Clocks
Classic mystery
The Clocks
Book 32 of the Hercule Poirot series
Stenographer Sheila Webb arrives for an appointment at a blind woman's house and discovers an unidentified corpse surrounded by clocks showing the same wrong time. Intelligence agent Colin Lamb encounters her flight from the scene while pursuing a separate clue connected to espionage. Poirot accepts the challenge of solving the murder largely from reports, insisting that careful reasoning can succeed without visiting the crime scene. Puzzling and cerebral, this mystery suits readers who enjoy strange tableaux, suburban suspects, spy subplots, and detectives stripping away elaborate staging to find the ordinary motive concealed beneath it.
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