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**THE CLOCKS THAT STOPPED**
*A Hercule Poirot Mystery*
**Time is running out—but the dead don’t lie.**
When legendary watchmaker Elias Winterbourne is found dead in his locked workshop, surrounded by dozens of stopped clocks frozen at different times, only Hercule Poirot notices the fatal flaw: *This was no natural death—it was a murder disguised as time itself.*
The brilliant detective soon uncovers a chilling truth: Winterbourne’s final masterpiece—a stolen astronomical clock—holds more than gears and gold. It conceals a coded map to lost royal treasures… and a secret that could rewrite European history. Now, Poirot must outwit four suspects with motives as precise as clockwork:
- The disinherited son desperate to claim his birthright
- The ambitious apprentice hiding ties to Russian nobility
- The rival craftsman with a decades-old grudge
- The mysterious collector who isn’t who he claims to be
But as Poirot deciphers the stopped clocks’ hidden pattern, he unravels a darker conspiracy. Winterbourne didn’t just die—he was *orchestrated* to die by an ingenious killing mechanism hidden in plain sight. And the real murderer isn’t just covering up a crime… they’re guarding a truth powerful enough to start wars.
**Can you spot the fatal tick before the final second?**
From the shadowed workshops of rural England to the secret vaults of fallen empires, this locked-room mystery delivers everything Christie fans crave—elegant deduction, shocking twists, and Poirot’s signature brilliance—while weaving in fresh elements that will thrill modern readers.
*Tick. Tick. Tick.* The truth emerges with merciless precision. But will Poirot solve the puzzle before history repeats itself?
**For fans of:** *The Thursday Murder Club, The Silent Patient*, and classic whodunits with a historical twist.
**Keywords:** locked room mystery, historical thriller, detective novel, Christie-style whodunit, treasure hunt suspense.
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Title The Stopped Clocks of Winterbourne
**THE CLOCKS THAT STOPPED**
*A Hercule Poirot Mystery*
**Time is running out—but the dead don’t lie.**
When legendary watchmaker Elias Winterbourne is found dead in his locked workshop, surrounded by dozens of stopped clocks frozen at different times, only Hercule Poirot notices the fatal flaw: *This was no natural death—it was a murder disguised as time itself.*
The brilliant detective soon uncovers a chilling truth: Winterbourne’s final masterpiece—a stolen astronomical clock—holds more than gears and gold. It conceals a coded map to lost royal treasures… and a secret that could rewrite European history. Now, Poirot must outwit four suspects with motives as precise as clockwork:
- The disinherited son desperate to claim his birthright
- The ambitious apprentice hiding ties to Russian nobility
- The rival craftsman with a decades-old grudge
- The mysterious collector who isn’t who he claims to be
But as Poirot deciphers the stopped clocks’ hidden pattern, he unravels a darker conspiracy. Winterbourne didn’t just die—he was *orchestrated* to die by an ingenious killing mechanism hidden in plain sight. And the real murderer isn’t just covering up a crime… they’re guarding a truth powerful enough to start wars.
**Can you spot the fatal tick before the final second?**
From the shadowed workshops of rural England to the secret vaults of fallen empires, this locked-room mystery delivers everything Christie fans crave—elegant deduction, shocking twists, and Poirot’s signature brilliance—while weaving in fresh elements that will thrill modern readers.
*Tick. Tick. Tick.* The truth emerges with merciless precision. But will Poirot solve the puzzle before history repeats itself?
**For fans of:** *The Thursday Murder Club, The Silent Patient*, and classic whodunits with a historical twist.
**Keywords:** locked room mystery, historical thriller, detective novel, Christie-style whodunit, treasure hunt suspense.
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