num_pages: 352
description: 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…
language: English
title: Taken at the Flood
titlecomplete: Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)
characters: Hercule Poirot, Superintendent Spence
genres: Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, Crime, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Fiction, Murder Mystery
ratings_count: 23049
places: Warmsley Vale, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd