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᢬ock. 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...