The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mystery

✍ Scribed by Agatha Christie

• Book ID: 110586891
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 377 KB
• Series: Hercule Poirot Book 39
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062073815
• ASIN: B000FC2IYY

✦ Synopsis

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.…

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Review

'Deliberately fantastic.' Times Literary Supplement 'Superlative Christie... extrememly 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

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