Poirot

The Clocks

Lieutenant Colin Race RN is investigating the death of two Royal Navy personnel when Sheila Webb runs out of 19, Wilbraham Crescent, and into his arms, distraught. Poirot travels to Dover to help Race establish whether Sheila murdered the middle-aged man found on the floor of the house, stabbed to death. Sheila claims she did not know either the victim or Miss Pebmarsh, a blind woman who owns the house, who was not at home when the body was found, and Miss Pebmarsh denies having requested Sheila's services as a secretary by telephone earlier that day. Poirot observes the complications of the case, including an unidentified murder victim, four clocks stopped at thirteen minutes past four in the room where the body was found, and a host of neighbours who say they saw nothing. Race is determined to find a connection between a suspected German mole within the Navy and the recent death of the girl he was engaged to marry, and in a state of grief he becomes increasingly close to Sheila. A wall of evidence begins to build up against Sheila, and then another victim is found brutally murdered.

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