Taken at the Flood
About this book
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...
Subjects
- détectives
- england, fiction
- english literature
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- german detective and mystery stories
- hercule poirot (fictitious character)
- large type books
- mystery
- novela policíaca inglesa
- poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction
- private investigators
- romans, nouvelles
- translations from english