Taken At The Flood
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of classic British mystery fiction, Taken at the Flood chronicles the unraveling of the Cloade family, whose financial security is threatened when their wealthy patriarch secretly remarries before dying in the London Blitz, leaving his fortune entirely to his new widow. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the village of Warmsley Vale claiming to know a dark secret about the widow's past, Hercule Poirot is drawn into a web of greed, deception, and murder that implicates nearly every member of the desperate family. Christie constructs the narrative with her signature precision, layering psychological tension and red herrings to keep the reader perpetually off-balance. The novel illustrates Christie's remarkable ability to use the social anxieties of post-war England as a backdrop for moral ambiguity, making the question of guilt far more complex than it first appears. Sharp, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful, it stands as one of the more psychologically rich entries in the Poirot canon.
Author: Agatha Christie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, The Agatha Christie Collection
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A masterwork of classic British mystery fiction, Taken at the Flood chronicles the unraveling of the Cloade family, whose financial security is threatened when their wealthy patriarch secretly remarries before dying in the London Blitz, leaving his fortune entirely to his new widow. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the village of Warmsley Vale claiming to know a dark secret about the widow's past, Hercule Poirot is drawn into a web of greed, deception, and murder that implicates nearly every member of the desperate family. Christie constructs the narrative with her signature precision, layering psychological tension and red herrings to keep the reader perpetually off-balance. The novel illustrates Christie's remarkable ability to use the social anxieties of post-war England as a backdrop for moral ambiguity, making the question of guilt far more complex than it first appears. Sharp, atmospheric, and relentlessly suspenseful, it stands as one of the more psychologically rich entries in the Poirot canon.