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The clock strikes twelve

Detective and mystery stories. New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers. A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead. It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike, hatred and fear.

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  • "Glocke schlägt zwölf"

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  • "Detective and mystery stories. New Year's Eve, 1940, is unusual for the Paradine family. Departing from tradition, James Paradine makes a speech that changes the course of many lives. Valuable documents have disappeared. A member of the family has taken them. The culprit has until midnight to confess and return the papers. A few minutes after twelve James Paradine is dead. It is left to Miss Silver to disentangle the threads that bind the Paradine family in a strange web of dislike, hatred and fear."@en
  • "Pour ceux et celles qui auraient tout lu Agatha Christie, voici une série de romans policiers anglais où apparaît une bonne demoiselle qui, avec la logique précise du tricot dont elle est championne, résout des énigmes dignes de sa contemporaine Miss Marple. Sur les 80 histoires qu'a écrites l'auteure, célèbre en son pays, 33 fournissent à Miss Silver l'occasion d'exercer sa jugeote. Celui-ci, de 1945, fournit un bon échantillon."
  • "Miss Silver investigates the murder of a great British industrialist. Though they share a manor house, the Paradines are not close, and their patriarch does nothing to discourage the petty jealousies that divide wealthy families."
  • "Miss Maude Silver is asked to unravel the mystery of who killed old Mr. James Paradine when he is found dead on the first day of 1943 after an acrimonious New Year's Eve gathering with his family."@en
  • "Op Oudejaarsavond gebeuren er vreemde zaken tijdens een familiebijeenkomst."
  • "James Paradine is murdered on New Year's Eve after confronting a relative about missing plans and demanding a confession, and the redoubtable Miss Maud Silver is charged with identifying a killer among several suspects."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"

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  • "The clock strikes twelve"
  • "The clock strikes twelve"@en
  • "The clock strikes twelve : a Miss Silver mystery"@en
  • "The clock strikes twelve : a Miss Silver mystery"
  • "The Clock Strikes Twelve"@en
  • "Die Uhr schlägt zwölf : ein Miss-Silver-Roman"
  • "De klok slaat twaalf"
  • "Au douzième coup de minuit"
  • "Die Uhr schlägt zwölf ein Miss-Silver-Roman"
  • "The Clock strikes Twelve"@en
  • "Die Glocke schlägt 12 : Kriminalroman"
  • "Die Uhr schlägt zwölf : Kriminalroman"
  • "Die Uhr schlägt zwölf Kriminalroman"
  • "Au douxième coup de minuit"

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