Taken at the Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Part of the new look for Hercule Poirot titles for the 21st century.

Read by Hugh Fraser, who plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series.

A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.

Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by ‘spirits’ that Mrs Underhay’s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman’s true motive for approaching him…

©1948 Agatha Christie Limited, a Chorion Company. All rights reserved; (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK

Critic reviews

"Told briskly, vivaciously, and with ever-fertile imagination." (Manchester Evening News)

"One of the best...her gift for blending the cosy with the macabre has seldom been more in evidence than it is here." (Tatler)

A great story and great performance

A perfect example of Agatha Christie's genius of her craft of story telling and fiction. Very well narrated