When young Ksyusha finds herself in the magical and dangerous Dark City, she must overcome an evil witch and rewind the city clock to stop an army from taking over the city.

Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent--not the body of a dead man surrounded by clocks. When old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning the clocks, it's clear they are going to need a very good detective.

"A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites...