[Hercule Poirot 28] • Taken at the Flood
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- Authors
- Christie, Agatha
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Tags
- mystery & detective , classics , general , hercule (fictitious character) , private investigators , mystery , missing persons , poirot , classic crime , crime & thriller , traditional british , literature: classics , fiction
- ISBN
- 9780007121014
- Date
- 1948-03-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.18 MB
- Lang
- en
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…