Taken at the Flood
realising it.
2 Characters
· Hercule Poirot, Belgian detective
· Superintendent Spence, investigating officer
· Sergeant Graves, Spence's assistant
· George, Poirot's valet
· Rosaleen Cloade, formerly Mrs. Robert Underhay,
a wealthy young widow
· David Hunter, Rosaleen's brother
· Jeremy Cloade, a solicitor
· Frances Cloade, Jeremy's wife
· Lionel Cloade, a doctor
· Katherine Cloade, Lionel's wife
· Rowley Cloade, a farmer
· Lynn Marchmont, a demobbed Wren, fiancée to
Rowley
· Adela Marchmont, Lynn's mother
· Beatrice Lippincott, pub landlady of The Stag
· Major Porter, the club bore
· "Enoch Arden", a blackmailer
· Mrs. Leadbetter, a resident of The Stag
3 Explanation of the novel's title
The title of the book in both the UK and US markets is
a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a speech by
Brutus in Act IV: "There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the flood leads on to fortune...". The quotation
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