Product Description

A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie's novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.

Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desperate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen begins to fear for her life. The prospects for the Cloades improve when they discover that Rosaleen had a previous husband who perished mysteriously in Africa. Then a mysterious stranger appears in the village, saying that he has something to communicate to her, but the following morning he is found dead. Was he, in fact, her husband?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162660 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...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!

Customer Reviews

Agatha Christie's Taken at the Flood
Taken at the flood is a vivaciously told book, a story of romance and murder.
The plot of the murder is hidden by romance full of parts that will make you happy, scared, surprised and even sad.
Some parts even will make you laugh with the thought of "how can anyone do that!"
Travel from London to the country with Hercule Poirot and see if you can crack the murder before him.

Enjoyable plot, great read.
The story was essentially made up of three portions, and I was amazed at the way the writer managed to link all three together seamlessly.

The sequence, as Poirot says, goes this way: 'If A has a motive to kill B, and C a motive to kill D, does it make sense if A kills D and C kills B?'

Read it to understand what it means :O>

A sparkling whodunnit
This is one of Agatha Christie's lesser known murder mysteries, which is surprising given the ingenious plot. The criticism that Christie's characters are generally two-dimensional caricatures cannot be levelled here. The fates and intentions of tragic Rosaleen, misguided Rowley Cloade and ambiguous David Hunter will keep you guessing until the final revelation, which will leave you gasping for breath.