" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
Taken at the Flood.
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1948. [Detective Fiction] FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192; [2], blank. Publisher's orange hardback cloth binding, blocked to spine in black, illustrated dust-wrapper. A clean, fine copy. Virtually as new. A remarkable survival. Set in post-war Britain, in which euphoria has turned to discontent, even among the landed gentry. This intrigue involving Poirot, concerns the Cloade family, whose fortunes are in the hands of an attractive young family member, recently widowed... The novel was titled 'There Is a Tide' in the USA. Item #72069
Wagstaff and Poole p.198. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p.82-89.
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