Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot Series)

by Agatha Christie, Mallory (DM) (Editor)

Overview

Rosaleen Cloade—just two weeks a widow—has arrived in the sleepy village of Warmsley Vale to collect on her late husband's sizeable inheritance. It's news that comes as an unpleasant surprise to the Cloade family. But the fate of the family fortune is only the first surprise. The second is the shocking news that the blushing young bride may be a bigamist. The third is murder. Now Hercule Poirot has been enlisted to shake the Cloade family tree before a killer strikes again...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062573421
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Hercule Poirot Series
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	650,956
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Date of Birth:

September 15, 1890

Date of Death:

January 12, 1976

Place of Birth:

Torquay, Devon, England

Education:

Home schooling

Website:

http://www.agathachristie.com

What People are Saying About This

John Mortimer

“[I’m] fascinated by Poirot’s ‘little grey cells.’”

Editorial Reviews

Hercule Poirot fans will be pleased to hear Hugh Fraser, who plays Captain Hastings on PBS's Mystery! and A&E's Poirot, recount Christie's intriguing 1948 novel (published in the U.S. as There Is a Tide). The celebrated Belgian sleuth visits the sleepy English village of Warmsley Vale to check into the background of Gordon Cloade, supposedly a victim of the London Blitz. He had wed an attractive young widow, the former Mrs. Underhay, now the sole possessor of the Cloade family fortune. The deceased's sister-in-law told Poirot that "spirits" informed her that the widow's first husband is still among the living, raising suspicions about Cloade's demise. Fraser's tone at once reassures listeners that, just as on television, they are in capable hands. He does a fine job creating a variety of character voices, distinguishing one from another with clarity but without excessive flamboyance. The release of any Christie is an event, and it does not taken an abundance of "little gray cells" to deduce that this audio will be well-received. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

[I’m] fascinated by Poirot’s ‘little grey cells.’” — John Mortimer, author of Rumpole of the Bailey

“One of the better Christies… Don’t miss.” — New York Herald Tribune

From the Publisher

One of the better Christies… Don’t miss.

New York Herald Tribune

[I’m] fascinated by Poirot’s ‘little grey cells.’

John Mortimer