Le flux et le reflux

Description:

A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man's sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by 'spirits' that Mrs. Underhay's first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him...

subjects: Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Mystery,  Large type books,  Private investigators,  Translations from English,  German Detective and mystery stories,  England, fiction,  Poirot, hercule (fictitious character), fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional,  English literature,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Détectives,  Romans, nouvelles,  Novela policíaca inglesa

People: Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)

Places: Belgium