Taken at the Flood

Gordon Cloade's death in a wartime air raid leaves his fortune with a young widow and his relatives with nothing, which is where Hercule Poirot's interest begins. Agatha Christie sets this case in the unsettled years just after the Second World War, with rationing, resentment and shifting family money in the background. A stranger's claim about the widow's first husband reopens everything, and Poirot works through motive rather than spectacle, weighing who gains and who is merely frightened. The solution turns on Christie's usual precision about what people say and what they leave out. What it brings to a collection: • A Poirot investigation set in the immediate post-war period • Inheritance and family resentment as the engine of the plot • Questions of identity and impersonation at the centre of the case • Harper Collins edition matching the wider Christie paperback series For classic detective fiction readers and Poirot completists, published by Harper Collins and available at Boipoka.