Author: Agatha Christie Title: Taken at the Flood
Description: London, The Crime Club, by Collins, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the first edition of Agatha Christie's detective novel, following Hercule Poirot in post-War England. The first UK edition, first impression.Set in 1946, in this novel follows Hercule Poirot as he untangles the family history of a young widow, and those who would rather she weren"t the sole inheritor of her second husband"s fortune.Crime writer and lecturer Robert Barnard later favourably reviewed the novel as a 'compulThe novel was initially published seven months prior in the USA, under the title 'There is a Tide..&apos.With the bookplate of Carl A Jacobsson to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. A touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, otherwise externally excellent. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .
Keywords: Taken at the Flood There is a Tide . . . Hercule Poirot There is a Tide . . . None
Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 924F30
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