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== [[Literature]] ==

* Garry Kilworth's ''[[Welkin Weasels]]: Gaslight Geezers'' features Maudlin and Scruff, the hero's sidekicks, crashing a hot air balloon into Ringing Roger, the Big Ben-analogue clocktower, below which just happens to be a statue of King Redfur holding a very sharp upward-pointing lance. They catch the hands of the clock. It's quarter-past-nine, Scruff catches the hour hand and Maudlin catches the minute hand:

"You might be. Your hand's going upwards. Mine's going down." }}

* Not a clocktower, but the climax of ''[[Redwall]]'' takes place in the Abbey belltower.

* Gideon Defoe's ''The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists'' has a climactic scene in the Big Ben tower, {{spoiler|where the evil Bishop "Soapy Sam" Wilberforce has hidden his diabolical device which sucks the youthful life-force out of young ladies. He also tied Charles Darwin's brother Erasmus between two of the clock's cogs, planning to leave him to be crushed if Darwin didn't cancel his lecture tour.}}

* Charles Todd's [[Inspector Rutledge]] novel ''A Long Shadow'' includes a suspenseful climb up the clocktower on the local church. It also inspires one of the series' very rare comic exchanges. The shell-shocked Rutledge is talking to Hamish, the ''dead'' soldier (really, the voice of his subconscious) he constantly hallucinates:

"Then stay here." }}

* Ayn Rand's ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' prominently features a calendar tower -- a skyscraper with a giant projection screen that simply shows the current calendar day. In fact, the novel opens with a description of this structure. John Galt co-opts the projection equipment to add drama to his delivery of the long mid-book [[Author Filibuster]].