There Is a Tide

Agatha Christie: Featuring Hercule Poirot. Alternate Title: "Taken at the Flood". From the inside front cover: Second Chance-At Death. At first, Hercule Poirot refused the case. All he had to go on was a vague message from the spirit world, and that was hardly worth his time. But when a real corpse turned out to be a man supposedly dead for years, the indomitable Poirot could not resist the challenge. And quite a challenge it was, for in order to find a killer he had to learn a dead man's motives, the wiles of a widow-and the ways of a murderer in love... From the back cover: Deadly love legacy. Old Gordon Cloade's abrupt departure from this life left his sweet young bride a very wealthy widow and the members of his family very angry. It seemed quite unfair for so vast a fortune to fall into one girl's hands. Something had to be done about it. Unfortunately, something was. Murder. Hercule Poirot found the case an intriguing mind puzzler-particularly intriguing since two men had to die to make one woman a widow, and one had to kill to make her a wife.