The Clocks

Synopsis

Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. To her horror, what she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by six clocks - set at different times. When questioned by the police, Mrs. Pebmarsh, the blind owner of No. 19, denies all knowledge of ringing Sheila's secretarial agency and asking for her by name -- yet someone did. Nor does she own that many clocks! And neither woman seems to know the victim.