- Four clocks surround an unidentified corpse in a blind woman's house, and a young typist is summoned to the crime scene. However, Poirot is convinced that the complicated setup is merely hiding a simpler solution.
- Investigating a spy-ring, Lt. Colin Race comes to Wilbraham Crescent, where he literally bumps into agency typist Sheila Webb, as she comes flying out of number 19, the home of blind receptionist Millicent Pebmarsh. Sheila has discovered the body of a man whose identity proves hard to confirm, surrounded by four clocks, stopped at the same time. Miss Pebmarsh does not know the man and did not ask for the services of Sheila, who is the initial chief suspect. However, as Poirot is brought in to assist Inspector Hardcastle in the case, and the murderer strikes again, Poirot comes to realize that the man was killed elsewhere and brought to Miss Pebmarsh's house. The neighbors claim to have seen nothing but Poirot believes one of them may have had a secret which was worth killing for and sets out to unmask them, as well as explaining the significance, if any, of the clocks. At the same time, Colin solves his investigation with Poirot's help.—don @ minifie-1
- During the interval at a play written by his friend Ariadne Oliver, Hercule Poirot is asked by an old friend, Colin Race, to look into the death of a man, R.H. Curry, whose body was discovered by Sheila Webb. Sheila works for a secretarial services and she had gone to a Miss Pebmarsh as per instructions. She arrived and found him dead behind the sofa. It turns out that the blind Miss Pebmarsh did not order a secretary and nor does she own the many clocks that are found in the room, all set for 13 minutes past four. Race, who is working as a security officer, believes the incident is related to a case of espionage they had been investigating. While Poirot's own investigation leads to the discovery of the spy ring, Curry's murder - and those that follow - lead him down an altogether different path.—garykmcd
- Hercule Poirot is approached by a friend, Lieutenant Colin Race of the Royal Navy, to help investigate a murder. Lt Race works in a secret base under Dover Castle. His colleague and girlfriend died while investigating a German spy ring and in his investigations of the ring he stumbles across a murder. A body has been found in the house of a blind woman, Ms Pebmarsh, but nobody, including the blind woman, knows his identity. Lt Race is convinced the murder is linked to the spy ring. The chief suspect is a typist, Sheila Webb, who discovered the body. The more Poirot delves, the murkier things seem.—grantss
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