Agatha Christie’s 1963 novel The Clocks is an unusual Hercule Poirot mystery where the detective works from his armchair, solving a case that begins when a typist, Sheila Webb, finds a dead man surrounded by multiple clocks, all stopped at 4:13, in a flat she’s visiting for a job. The investigation by Detective Inspector Hardcastle uncovers a complex plot of espionage and mistaken identities, involving Colin Lamb and the victim’s family history, which Poirot must unravel through intellect alone, never visiting the scene or interrogating suspects directly.
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