Taken at the Flood: Hercule Poirot Investigates
- ISBN-10
- 0061755117
- ISBN-13
- 9780061755118
- Series
- Taken at the Flood
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-01-25
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Agatha Christie
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.…
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