Maureen West

In the novel The Clocks, Maureen West is one of the typists at Cavendish Secretarial and Typewriting Bureau. After the inquest on the unknown dead man who had been found at No. 19 Wilbraham Crescent, Maureen asked her colleague if she would like to lunch with her at the Bluebird café but Edna Brent declined. She seemed to have something on her mind. So Maureen went off with someone else for lunch.

Later when Inspector Hardcastle if Edna had seemed worried about something, Maureen replied that Edna is always worried about something. She gets things muddled up and makes mistakes.