Taken at the Flood
Book 1 of Hercule Poirot
Language: English
Detective Detective and mystery stories Detective and mystery stories; English Fiction Fiction - Mystery General General & Literary Fiction Great Britain Hercule Poirot Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Traditional British Mystery & Detective Stories Poirot; Hercule (Fictitious character) Private investigators Private investigators - England Suspense Traditional British
Publisher: Berkley
Published: Aug 15, 1984
Description:
In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood , the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. ** A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by “spirits” that Mrs. Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him.…