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Taken at the Flood


A Mystery Novel


Book 27 of the Hercule Poirot Series

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In Agatha Christie's classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poirot 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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