Taken at the Flood - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425169278 ISBN 13: 9780425169278

Publisher: Berkley, 1998

Synopsis

In the quiet English village of Warmsley Vale, a young widow of just two weeks becomes heir to a vast fortune, and an enigmatic newcomer meets s brutal death. But Hercule Poirot believes these "coincidences" are deliberate crimes--and he's determined to prove it.

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From the Back Cover

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....

About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0425169278
• ISBN 13: 9780425169278
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 231