Title: Taken at the Flood
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...
Subjects: Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Fiction, Mystery, Large type books, Private investigators, Translations from English, German Detective and mystery stories, England, fiction, Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, English literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Détectives, Romans, nouvelles, Novela policíaca inglesa
Places: Belgium
People: Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)