Taken at the Flood
- 226
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Taken at the Flood” is an intricate Poirot mystery set in England in 1946. Agatha Christie tells it through several members of the Cloade family, and the novel doubles as a picture of British society just after the war. Readers credit the puzzle and a solution that is hard to see coming. Some are thrown by the strange epilogue and object to how the heroine, Lynn Marchmont, is written, as a poor portrait of women.
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About the book
Taken at the Flood is a mystery novel 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... and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.1 across 86 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 37% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.7 | 14 | 16% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 72 | 84% |
Frequently asked
How long is Taken at the Flood?
It has 226 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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