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Taken at the Flood: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition cover

Taken at the Flood: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

by Christie, Agatha

EAN: 9780063376878

$18.99

Category: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Traditional

Format: Paperback

Language: English

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In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. Now with a beautiful new series look!

A few weeks after marrying an attractive 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 afterward, 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....