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    By Agatha Christie
    New York   Dodd, Mead, and Company
    8" by 5.5" [6], 242pp
    The first U.S. edition of this Poirot novel, known in the U.K. as 'Taken at the Flood'.
    By Agatha Christie

    1948 There is a Tide...

    New York   Dodd, Mead, and Company
    8" by 5.5" [6], 242pp
    The first U.S. edition of this Poirot novel, known in the U.K. as 'Taken at the Flood'.
    £595.00
    : 0.5kgs / : 966P43
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    Description

    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    The first U.S. edition, first printing. This U.S. edition preceded the U.K. first by seven months.

    In the original unclipped dust wrapper.

    Published in the U.K. as 'Taken at the Flood'.

    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.

    Agatha Christie is one of the most prolific and successful detective writers of her time, writing sixty-six detective novels in total. She is best known for her protagonists Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light edge wear and handling marks to the dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

    Fine

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