AC - 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...