Taken at the Flood

By Agatha Christie

Subjects: Mystery, German Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, England, fiction, Translations from English, Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character), Large type books, Romans, nouvelles, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, English literature, Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction, Détectives, Private investigators

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...