Taken at the Flood

A Hercule Poirot Mystery

audio cd, 1 pages

Published Aug. 9, 2016 by Avon Original, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-5047-6509-1
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A few weeks after marrying an attractive young 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 afterwards, 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...

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Segredos, heranças e sombras – Minha experiência com A Morte da Sra. McGinty de Agatha Christie

Ler Taken at the Flood foi, para mim, como entrar em uma casa antiga cheia de portas entreabertas, onde cada gesto parece esconder um enigma. A história começa em um vilarejo inglês logo após a guerra, quando a notícia da morte de Gordon Cloade, milionário e patriarca, desencadeia uma disputa de herança e uma rede de tensões familiares.

O que me prendeu logo de início foi a atmosfera. Agatha Christie tem a habilidade de transformar ambientes aparentemente banais em cenários cheios de mistério. Senti a presença de Poirot quase como a de um maestro, regendo discretamente cada detalhe, deixando-me atento a cada olhar, cada frase interrompida.

O enredo se complica quando surge a viúva de Cloade, cuja presença abala a família inteira. Ao longo das páginas, fui tomado por uma sensação de instabilidade: ninguém parecia confiável, e cada revelação só abria espaço para mais dúvidas. O talento de Christie é …

Review of 'Taken at the Flood (Poirot)' on 'Goodreads'

This is a mediocre Christie - a little plodding in its pace with relatively poor characterisations particular when compared to the previous Poirot novel The Hollow. But the actual solution was reasonably clever, although this book depends on a few unlikely coincidences even when all is said and done. And the final chapter is absolutely dire - honestly it's one of the worst endings to a book I've read in a long time and really undermines the whole book. The idea that one of the criminals would get off Scott free because "Poirot is a bit of a dear", the police don't seem to care that someone tried to disguise an accident as a murder, and that a woman he just tried to strangle to death would decide to marry him because she "likes a bit of danger" was just extremely stupid and really unbelievable despite the attempts throughout the …

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