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Taken at the Flood (Hercule Poirot, #29)

Agatha Christie

Start date: April 1, 2020

Finish date: April 30, 2020

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Dec 12, 2012 BrokenTune rated it it was ok

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Poirot sighed. ‘One should never struggle against the inevitable,’ he said. ‘If a middle-aged lady wearing sham Egyptian beads has made up her mind to see the famous Hercule Poirot, and has come up from the country to do so, nothing will deflect her. She will sit there in the hall till she gets her way. Show her in, George.’

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Taken at the Flood had an interesting start to the story. We start the story in a gentlemen's club in London during an air raid. What is interestin ...more

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Apr 07, 2020 Leslie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I was somewhat amazed to find a Hercule Poirot book that I had never read before! Pleasantly convoluted with plenty of surprises in the final exposition by Poirot.

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Apr 08, 2020 Jill rated it really liked it

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I was convinced I had read this before, but I was wrong. By quite early on I really thought I had worked it all out, however Christie did beat me on this one. Some of the clues I picked up on were right, but then there were other happenings that I did not foresee. I think a weak point in it was the fact that Poirot took up the case because of something he had heard some time before this case was brought to him, made him bother with it. As was stated within the book, the whole of the Cloade famil ...more

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