Showing results for "Flood" in Traditional Detectives

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman. A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs...

Detective Jack Knox is faced with a troubling case when a woman’s body is found on a beach near Edinburgh. Police match her to missing persons, because her personal effects have been swept out to sea. When she is finally identified, the victim’s last known movements are investigated. She was courted by a man who proves elusive, having evaded surveillance cameras. He has covered his tracks well. Was this her killer?

في كل نادٍ، دائمًا يوجد شخص يثير الضجر في نفوس رواده، ولم يكن نادي كورونيشن استثناءً، وعلى الرغم من أجواء الحرب التي تتعرض لها المدينة وتعرضها لغارة جوية، فإن ذلك لم يمنع الأمور من السير في مجراها المعتاد هناك.