Taken at the Flood

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. This title was previously published as There is a Tide...