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The 1940s · England, just after WWII

Taken at the Flood

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A family loses its inheritance to a young widow, and a stranger turns up in town

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Not required. It's left out of the main story but is part of the full chronological order.

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Quick recap

Wealthy Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid just after marrying a young widow, Rosaleen. With no will, the fortune goes to her and her brother, David Hunter, leaving the Cloade family, who lived on Gordon's money, with nothing. In 1946 a stranger arrives in Warmsley Vale claiming Rosaleen's first husband is alive. If so, her marriage to Gordon was void. Soon the stranger is found dead. Poirot, brought in by a Cloade aunt, discovers that almost nobody is who they claim to be, not the dead man and not Rosaleen herself. David is exposed, and young Lynn Marchmont ends up with her cousin Rowley.

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What changed on screen

  1. Behind the scenesJulius Caesar

    The title comes from Brutus's line in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar about a tide in the affairs of men. In the US it came out as There Is a Tide.

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  2. ReferenceSpence's debut

    Superintendent Spence makes his first appearance here. He comes back in later Poirot cases as the country policeman the detective trusts.

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