title: Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
author:  Christopher Fowler 
description: "Highly unusual ... exciting and original.... It starts with a violent death in the lobby of the legendary Savoy Hotel and quickly expands to include art vandalism, Gilbert and Sullivan, and a host of other peculiarities."<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br /><br />"A twisty thriller, full of action and plot surprises."<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />Invulnerable, genial and crafty. <i>Los Angeles Times<br /></i><br />Theyre old, theyre cranky, and their chaotic work habits inevitably lead to disaster. But life always seems livelier whenever Arthur Bryant and John May are on a case! <i>New York Times Book Review</i> <br /><br />Cranky, eccentric, and brilliant, Bryant and May dispense fascinating bits of knowledge as they solve supposedly unsolvable crimes. <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>
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  # Three Men and a Maid
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### P. G. Wodehouse
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  CHAPTER TWO
  
  
  CHAPTER THREE
  
  
  CHAPTER FOUR
  
  
  CHAPTER FIVE
  
  
  CHAPTER SIX
  
  
  CHAPTER SEVEN
  
  
  CHAPTER EIGHT
  
  
  CHAPTER NINE
  
  
  CHAPTER TEN
  
  
  CHAPTER ELEVEN
  
  
  CHAPTER TWELVE
  
  
  CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  
  
  CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  
  
  CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  
  
  CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  ### CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Through the curtained windows of the furnished apartment which Mrs.
  
  
  Horace Hignett had rented for her stay in New York rays of golden
  
  
  sunlight peeped in like the foremost spies of some advancing army. It
  
  
  was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall
  
  
  pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the
  
  
  sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on
  
  
  the b