In the novel The Clocks, Crowdean is a town in Sussex. Crowdean is located a good ten miles from Portlebury. A dead body is found inside 19 Wilbraham Crescent.
Locations[]
- Crowdean Police Station
- Railway Station
- Albany Road
- Palmerston Road
- Wilbraham Crescent
- Curlew Hotel at the end of the Esplanade
- Clarendon Hotel
- Dipper Street
- Edwin Glen, Artist Photographer in Palace Street
- Cavendish Secretarial and Typewriting Bureau in Palace Street
- Coal merchant next door
- The Orient Café and Restaurant in Palace Street
- A cake shop at the corner nearby the Cavendish
- Field and Wren, drapers
- Gainsford & Swettenham in the High Street, solicitors
- Local branch of Jove Insurance Company
- The Three Feathers
- Bluebird café, a restaurant or cafe
- Cornmarket - probably where the inquest was held
- a cinema
- a Woolworth's
- Ho Tung Chinese restaurant
- Buttercup cafe
- a clock repairing shop
- Southern Downs Laundry
- Roscoe & West, drapers