Author: Agatha Christie
Year: 1963
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Popularity: 3.8
Genres/categories: Mystery, Classic, Suspense, Detective
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ISBN:
9780006112686
9780007199136
9780061002793
9781572703940
0006112684
000613694X
0007199139
0061002798
1572703946 |
 Sheila Webb, typist-for-hire, has arrived at 19 Wilbraham Crescent in the seaside town of Crowdean to accept a new job. What she finds is a well-dressed corpse surrounded by five clocks. 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. Colin Lamb, a young intelligence specialist working a case of his own at the nearby naval yard, happens to be on the scene at the time of Sheila Webb's ghastly discovery. Lamb knows of only one man who can properly investigate a crime as bizarre and baffling as what happened inside No. 19 -- his friend and mentor, Hercule Poirot.
About the author:
Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six romance novels under a pseudonym. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, she remains the most-translated individual author, having been translated into at least 103 languages. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple - and author of "The Mousetrap", the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.
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