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Taken at the Flood
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Hercule Poirot: Book 26

Taken at the Flood (1948) (edit title/settings)

by Agatha Christie (Author) (edit contributors)

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Alternate title: There Is a Tide

When a widow tries to collect on her inheritance, her late husband's family is unpleasantly surprised. They're even more horrified by the news that this lovely stranger may be a bigamist. Now murder shakes the family tree, and it's time for Hercule Poirot... read more

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  • “There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.”
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WARMSLEY Heath consists of a Golf Course, two Hotels, some very expensive modern villas giving onto the Golf Course, a row of what were, before the war luxury shops, and a railway station.

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This is book 26 of 39 in Hercule Poirot. (standard series)

Preceded by The Labors of Hercules, and followed by Mrs. McGinty's Dead.

This is book 35 of 74 in Agatha Christie - Luitingh-Sijthoff pockets. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by Three Act Tragedy.

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  1. Agatha Christie (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Country: US
Publication Date: March, 1948
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 242

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