Taken at the Flood // There is a Tide — Agatha Christie

Warmsley Vale. To all appearances, it was just another sleepy English village shaken up by a series of bizarre coincidences ...or were they cunningly deliberate crimes? A young bride--just two weeks a widow--was made sole heir to an enormous fortune. A mysterious stranger met a brutal end ... and that dapper detective Hercule Poirot found himself on a trail as baffling as any he had ever encountered.