Carr John Dickson Death-Watch

<p>In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver''s house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck.<br><br>For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some seemingly impossible questions: why was Calvin Boscombe standing near the corpse with a silencer on his gun? Who locked the attic door? And what has become of the sixteenth-century death-watch?</p>