num_pages: 224
description: Volume 47 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1948) Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide 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
characters: Superintendent Spence, Hercule Poirot
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
ratings_count: 23056
places: Warmsley Vale, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Collins Crime