Taken at the Flood
British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by
Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title
of There is a Tide...[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime
Club in the November of the same year under Christie's
original title.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.50[1] and the
UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6).[2] It features
her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and
is set in 1946.
1 Plot summary
In a flashback from late Spring to early Spring, Lynn
Marchmont, newly demobilised from the Women's Royal
Naval Service, finds difficulty settling into the village life
of Warmsley Vale. She is engaged to Rowley, one of several
members of the Cloade family living nearby. Each of
them grew dependent on money from Gordon Cloade, a
bachelor who was expected to die and leave his fortune
to them. But instead he marries an Irishwoman, Rosaleen
Turner, invalidating his previous will, before being
killed in an explosion at his home, which his new
wife survives
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