The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #34) | Agatha Christie | kharidobechobooks

The Clocks uniquely weaves together two separate narratives: a bizarre domestic murder mystery and a Cold War espionage plot. [1]

The trouble begins when a young freelance stenographer, Sheila Webb, arrives at 19 Wilbraham Crescent for a routine typing job. Instead of her client, she uncovers the corpse of a middle-aged man sprawled behind the living room sofa. Even more unsettling are the surroundings: the room contains six clocks, four of which are frozen exactly at 4:13—yet none of them belong to the blind woman who owns the house. [1, 2, 3]

British intelligence officer Colin Lamb, who happens to be in the area trailing a Soviet spy ring, stumbles onto the scene and decides to consult his old friend Hercule Poirot. Accepting the challenge as an ultimate test of logic, the brilliant Belgian detective sets out to solve the baffling case entirely from his armchair, proving that "this crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple." [1, 2, 3]