Taken at the Flood
to Agatha Christie fans. Fantastic and topping."[4]
Robert Barnard: "Elderly man married to a glamorous
nitwit of dubious social background is a common plotelement
in Christie. Here she is widowed (in an airraid
this is one of the few Christies anchored to an
actual time), and burdened by financially insatiable relatives,
both of blood and in-law. But who exactly is
dead, and who isn't? And who is what they seem, and
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
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