Name: Taken at the Flood
ISBN: 9780062573421

Agatha Christie

Taken at the Flood

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Wynter

Taken at the Flood is another family-based drama, featuring a young widow that stands in the way of a massive fortune for her new relations. Nevermind her precarious position, it seems that it’s the people around her that have a knack for dying under suspicious circumstances.

Now, here’s a lovely novel by Christie – a true classic. On top of being really twisty, it features not one, but three suspicious deaths. I dare you to figure it out before the final scene. Poirot spends the entire book doing what he does best: talking to people and catching them in their lies. There is a bit of an ambiguous moral lesson in the very end that I do not necessarily agree with, but it doesn’t really change my perception of the novel as a whole. A wonderful pace, a great character development, and a satisfactory resolution all make the twenty-seventh volume of Poirot a worthy read.

Taken at the Flood (Poirot)

Liz B

Mystery itself is pretty good, but the epilogue ruins it all.

Sarah Vaughan

Definitely one of my favorite Poirot mysteries!

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. 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.…

Taken at the Flood

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