TAKEN AT THE FLOOD A Hercule Poirot Mystery

This classic Christie, originally published as THERE IS A TIDE, opens with Hercule Poirot in a London club, where he overhears a story that later helps to sort out a tangled murder case. Hugh Fraser, known to PBS “Mystery” fans in the role of Poirot’s sidekick, Captain Hastings, is elegant in the voices of the gentry— sowing bewilderment and an undercurrent of guilt to keep readers wondering to the end just who may be the villains. Fraser is equally deft in portraying the village folk and the Irish gate-crashers who married into the Cloade family and won the family fortune when a bomb in the London Blitz killed patriarch Gordon Cloade. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 06/ JAN 07]