Taken at the Flood "There is a Tide" redirects here. "There is a Tide" is also the name of a short story by Larry Niven, set in the Known Space universe. Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by 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
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