Taken at the Flood: Hercule Poirot Investigates |
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| Authors: | Christie, Agatha |
| Publisher: | William Morrow Paperbacks |
| BISAC/Subject: | FIC014000, FIC022030, FIC050000 |
| ISBN: | 9780061755118, Related ISBNs: 0061755117, 9780061755118, 9780062073846 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 288, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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.…
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