Taken at the Flood
who isn't? Compulsive reworking of Tennysonian and
Christiean themes, and pretty high up in the range of classic
titles. "[5]
5 References to other works
The false alibi used by the murderer of a witness sighting
the missed train smoke was a partial re-use of a plot device
used by Christie in the 1925 short story The Sign in
the Sky, later published in the 1930 collection The Mysterious
Mr. Quin.
6 Adaptations
6.2 Radio 3
6.1 Television
A television film was produced in 2006 with David Suchet
as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot. The
cast included Elliot Cowan as David Hunter, Celia Imrie
as Kathy Cloade, Jenny Agutter as Adela Marchmont
and Tim Pigott-Smith as Dr. Lionel Woodward.The film
made several significant changes to the plot:
· Like almost all episodes of the TV series, the film is
reset in the late 1930s as opposed to the post-World
War II years: as a result of this, the death of Gordon
Cloade was caused not by a German air raid, but an