Taken at the Flood
Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition with alternative title. | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Hercule Poirot |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
Publication date | March 1948 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 242 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | The Labours of Hercules |
| Followed by | The Under Dog and Other Stories |
Taken at the Flood is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1948 under the title of There Is a Tide . . . and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in the November of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at eight shillings and sixpence (8/6). It features her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, and is set in 1946.