Mrs Curtin

In the novel The Clocks, Mrs Curtin is a cleaner and resides at 17 Dipper Street. She works for Millicent Pebmarsh at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. Her normal working hours are ten and twelve. On the day that a dead body was found in the sitting room of No. 19 in the afternoon, Mrs Curtin had worked there in the morning as usual and had left at about quarter past twelve. Nobody came to the house and she did not know anyone by the name of Curry. Questioned by the police, she confirmed Miss Pebmarsh's account that the four ornamental clocks found at the crime scene did not belong to the house. The clocks were not in the sitting room while Mrs Curtin was working there.

As the police left after questioning her, Mrs Curtin asked herself whether she should have told them about something. This point is not developed in the rest of the story and we are not told what this something is.

Mrs Curtin has a young son named Ernie.