Agatha Christie

Broschiertes Buch

Taken at the Flood

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Beschreibung

In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. Now with a beautiful new series look! A few weeks after marrying an attractive 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 afterward, 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.…

Autor

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

© Angus Mc Bean (National Portrait Gallery, London)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 135mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780063376878
• ISBN-10: 0063376873
• Artikelnr.: 69793427

Rezensionen

'One of the best... her gift for blending the cosy with the macabre has seldom been more in evidence than it is here.'
Elizabeth Bowen, Tatler

'Told briskly, vivaciously, and with ever-fertile imagination.'
Manchester Evening News

'One of the better Christies... Don't miss.'
New York Herald Tribune