Agatha Christie's Poirot : Taken at the flood

A wasted chance. Not too bad, but it never really got to me. 

A major tells the story of rich Gordon who came back with a young bride. All relatives went to meet her but there was an explosion, everyone died but Rosalind and her brother. Gordon was good to his relatives, now they have serious money problems. Some of them know that Rosalind would help them but her brother controls her completely and won’t let it. 

Lynn’s mom can’t pay her bills, Francis’ husband Jeremy lost his clients’ pension money. 

David Hunter seems to enjoy the hatred towards him. 

Francis asks Rosalind for money and she writes a cheque immediately, but then David embarrasses her in front of everyone: “how much?” . He has her give the money back in front of everyone. 

Mr Arden comes telling Hunter that Rosalind’s first husband is still alive, and asks for blackmail money - because if he was still alive, then her second marriage would be null and she’d get nothing.

Lynn is charmed by Hunter and they kiss passionately but then he later calls her telling her to forget him, that he’d destroy her as is his nature, and to marry Rowley instead, as planned.

Mr Arden is found murdered. He was actually Charles, Frances’ brother, playing a part. Major Porter testified about him being the first husband Robert, and shot himself after receiving a letter. Rosalind tried to kill herself but didn’t die because the addicted-doctor had stolen most of her morphine and replaced it with something else. 

Rowley hit ‘Arden’, he fell and died, so he staged the murder. He caused his death and the major’s, but they were not murders. The only cold-blooded murderer here is David. 

He went to pay Arden but found him dead. He left the morphine in sight, for her to take. The girl is not his sister, she’s actually Eileen Corrigan, a simple farm girl. David had murdered his sister Rosaleen two years ago, in her happy marriage to Gordon she had excluded him, and he hated her for that. 

He had charmed a young Irish maid , Eileen, seduced her and made her have an abortion, then kept complete control over her. David blew up the place with dynamite killing Gordon and Rosaleen, and who knows how many other people he didn’t care about. 

David threatens them saying he’s put a bomb in the room, but Lynn walks up to him saying “you won’t do it because you love me” but of course there is no bomb. 

He’ll be hanged, and at the end Lynn visits Poirot. She’ll go back to Africa. She has a gift for him and tells him to write her a letter, “I like your letters”, and she goes away.

And just like that, it ends.

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