# The Clock Strikes Twelve

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- Book: [The Clock Strikes Twelve](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-wentworth/the-clock-strikes-twelve) ([The Clock Strikes Twelve.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-wentworth/the-clock-strikes-twelve.md))
- Authors: [Patricia Wentworth](https://www.bookquiver.com/patricia-wentworth)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4471-895-9
- Published: 2006-03-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.