Agatha Christie

Taken at the Flood

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Wynter

Taken at the Flood is another family-based drama, featuring a young widow that stands in the way of a massive fortune for her new relations. Nevermind her precarious position, it seems that it’s the people around her that have a knack for dying under suspicious circumstances.

Now, here’s a lovely novel by Christie – a true classic. On top of being really twisty, it features not one, but three suspicious deaths. I dare you to figure it out before the final scene. Poirot spends the entire book doing what he does best: talking to people and catching them in their lies. There is a bit of an ambiguous moral lesson in the very end that I do not necessarily agree with, but it doesn’t really change my perception of the novel as a whole. A wonderful pace, a great character development, and a satisfactory resolution all make the twenty-seventh volume of Poirot a worthy read.

Taken at the Flood (Poirot)

Liz B

Mystery itself is pretty good, but the epilogue ruins it all.

Sarah Vaughan

Definitely one of my favorite Poirot mysteries!

Jemima Scott

abbie banwell

Mitesh Jobanputra

Marissa

Larisa 

Anna

Connor 

Cheri McElroy

Noha Abdelaziz

Taken at the Flood (aka There is a Tide...)

Nuno Figueiredo

Varshh

Alla deriva

Noemi

Amanda Shameem

Taylor🩸

Lizzy Grayson

Yasmine Abdou

Aadi Rao

Sakthi Varshini

Sofia Collodel

Lisette Kuijt

Taken at the Flood

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