"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
Taken at the Flood.
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1948. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange hardback cloth binding, blocked to spine in black, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Contents clean, gift note in ink to endpaper, jacket with a few small nicks to spine ends. A near fine copy. Better than many examples- the fragile jacket for this title is prone to paper losses and wear. 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 #73097
Wagstaff and Poole p.198. Cooper and Pike; Detective Fiction p.82-89.
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