title: The Clocks (Poirot)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: A typist uncovers a man's body from behind the sofa! As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house!
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  ## The Clocks
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Hercule Poirot - 36 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Clocks
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my old friend Mario
  
  
  with happy memories of delicious food
  
  
  at the Caprice.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  The afternoon of the 9th of September was exactly like any other afternoon.
  None of those who were to be concerned in the events of that day could lay
  claim to having had a premonition of disaster. (With the exception, that is,
  of Mrs Packer of 47, Wilbraham Crescent, who specialized in premonitions, and
  who always described at great length afterwards the peculiar forebodings and
  tremors that had beset her. But Mrs Packer at No. 47, was so far away from No.
  19, and so little concerned with the happenings there, that it seemed
  unnecessary for her to have had a premonition at all.)
  
  
  At the Cavendish Secretarial and Typewriting Bureau, Principal, Miss K.
  Martin