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Taken at the Flood
1948 Poirot novel by Agatha Christie
"There is a Tide" redirects here. For the short story by Larry Niven, see Known Space.
Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There is a Tide . . .[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.50[1] and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6).[2] It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946.
Plot introduction
[edit]In spring 1944 during World War II, Gordon Cloade marries a widow he meets on board ship to New York, Rosaleen Underhay. A few days after arriving in London with his new wife, his London home is bombed, killing all but two people: Rosaleen and her brother, David Hunter. Gordon did not write a new will upon arrival, and his existing will is invalidated by the marriage. Rosaleen inherits Gordon's fortune. A day or so later, during another raid, Poirot sits in a shelter with people from the Concordia club in London and listens to a story about Major Porter's friend Robert Underhay in Afric
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Appendix II
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Dalhousie French Studies
Anas Atakora
Sanda Badescu est professeur agrégé au Département de langues modernes de l’Université de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard (Canada). Elle est auteure d’une monographie intitulée Madame de Sévigné et Michel de Montaigne: l’écriture intime à la lettre et à l’essai chez Edwin Mellen Press (2008) et a dirigé un ouvrage collectif From One Shore to Another: Reflections on the Symbolism of the Bridge chez Cambridge Scholars Publishing(2007).Elle s’intéresse aux rapports entre le corps et l’âme à travers les figures de la maladie et de la mélancolie dans le genre autobiographique et auto-fictionnel.
Rohini Bannerjee est professeure agrégée en études francophones dans le Département de langues modernes et de classiques, ainsi que affiliée avec le programme d’études féministes et « gender studies » et avec le programme d’études asiatiques à Saint Mary's University. Ses recherches incluent les littératures et les cultures francophones de l’Océan Indien, en particulier celles de l’Ile Maurice, les études interdisciplinaires, incluant un projet actuel sur la femme immigrante et la diaspora d’origine indienne-pakistanaise à Halifax, et les études pédagogiques sur l'avancement des connaissances en enseignement et en apprentissage.
Philippe Bas