Taken at the flood

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Agatha Christie: Taken at the flood (1978, Collins (for) the Crime Club)

192 pages

English language

Published June 19, 1978 by Collins (for) the Crime Club.

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978-0-00-244813-0
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A few weeks after marrying an attractive young 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 afterwards, 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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  • Fiction in English.