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The Clocks

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
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Continuing the new look unabridged Poirot titles, read by Hugh Fraser.

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…

©1963 Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion Company. All rights reserved (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, UK Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives
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Critic reviews

"Deliberately fantastic." (Times Literary Supplement)
"A sure-fire attention-gripper naturally." (Saturday Review)
"Superlative Christie...extremely ingenious." (The Bookman)
"Here is the grand-manner detective story in all its glory." (The New York Times)
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This book has me gripped from chapter one, I usually listen to a book at night and will fall asleep - I had to turn this one off to get some sleep as the story line had me gripped. - I also loved the change of voices, well done and thank you

The Clocks

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The aging Hercule Poirot makes guest appearances as an armchair consultant, but since the other two detectives are quite charmless, this isn't Agatha Christie's most interesting work. Rather disappointed.

Disappointing

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Plot takes awhile to kick in but I thought the solution was ingenious and really quite simple. The spy subplot was a little unnecessary

A slow burner

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a very good example of Agatha Christie's Poirot books. wonderfully read by Hugh Fraser as usual.

excellent

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Started promisingly but the deduction was forced and relied too much on deus ex machina.

Not one of her best

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