The Clocks is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. Reviews at the time of publication found the writing up to Christie's par, but found negatives: the murder of a character about to add useful information was considered "corny" and "unworthy" of the author, and "not as zestful". In contrast, Barnard's review in 1990 said it was a "lively, well-narrated, highly unlikely late specimen" of Christie's writing. He loved the clocks at the start and was oddly disappointed that they were red herrings. In the novel, Sheila Webb left 19 Wilbraham Crescent screaming murder in the quiet street. The young woman had found a dead man’s body in the house. She also nearly knocked down Colin Lamb, who happened to stand outside of the house. A few weeks later another life was claimed. This time was a woman who was strangled in the telephone box. Inspector Hardcastle interviewed the neighbours during which interesting facts about them were gathered. There was a professor who resigned from his Chair at Cambridge and then a lot of time in the garden, a woman who owned many cats in number 18 and at number 61 a builder’s wife inherited a wealthy sum of money from a dead Canadian uncle… You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Clocks” by Agatha Christie on our website.
