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Taken at the Flood

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Taken at the Flood	comment	Taken at the Flood is a detective novel by Agatha Christie published in 1948.World War II is over. Lynn Marchmont has returned to her home town after serving as a Wren and gets engaged to her cousin Rowland. Her family life won't be dull yet though, as the wealthy family patriarch Gordon Cloade died in a German air raid. As he never made a new will, his entire fortune will now go to his young widow Rosaleen - the rest of the family won't get a single penny. But if something were to happen to Rosaleen...The novel was adapted in 2006 for ITV's Poirot, starring David Suchet. Tropes for the adaptation can be found here.
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Taken at the Flood / int_1206dd74	type	Victory Is Boring
Taken at the Flood / int_1206dd74	comment	Victory Is Boring: The novel takes place right after World War II, with Lynn returning home after serving as a Wren. She finds life in her hometown dull by comparison.
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Taken at the Flood / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Taken at the Flood / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Poirot, noting how the murderer took advantage of an opportunity, quotes the Literary Allusion Title from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at its flood leads on to fortune."
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Taken at the Flood / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Taken at the Flood / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: The murderer, when caught, waives the right to remain silent and confesses, only saying it's been "a damned good run".
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Taken at the Flood / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Taken at the Flood / int_1a3b588c	comment	Suicide is Shameful: Lynn refers to Major Porter as weak, while trying to comfort Rowley from his guilt over causing Porter's suicide.
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Taken at the Flood / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Taken at the Flood / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: An interesting take on it. Rowley frames David for an Accidental Murder. At this point David is only guilty of fraud, but he eventually does commit a murder. In other words, Rowley framed the guilty party before they were actually guilty.
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Taken at the Flood / int_253c1204	type	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds
Taken at the Flood / int_253c1204	comment	Obfuscating Postmortem Wounds: Rowley accidentally killed Charles Trenton when he punched Charles, followed by Charles suffering Death by Falling Over. Rowley, rapidly improvising, then bashes the newly dead Charles's head in with a poker in an effort to frame David.
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Taken at the Flood / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
Taken at the Flood / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: A broken watch is found with the body of Enoch Arden that seems to fix the time of the murder, but even the local cops are genre savvy enough to realize that it's probably a trick. It is.
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Taken at the Flood / int_2b2abf36	type	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
Taken at the Flood / int_2b2abf36	comment	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Poirot remarks that all of the Cloades wished Rosaleen dead, consciously or unconsciously, because they had grown up dependent on Gordon Cloades's money, assumed they would inherit it when he died, and never made plans for a future where they wouldn't. His sudden remarriage before his death left all of them without prospects. Rowley shamefacedly admits that he thought of killing Rosaleen on the day she visited his farm, even if he didn't act on it.
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Taken at the Flood / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
Taken at the Flood / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: An interesting variation on the theme. Rosaleen was married to Robert Underhay, and after his death married Gordon Cloade, which made her Gordon's inheritor and invalidated Gordon's previous will. Then Enoch Arden appears and implies that Underhay is still alive, meaning that Rosaleen's marriage was bigamous and Robert's money goes instead to his next of kin. Enoch's murder both prevents one inheritance, and ensures another. After that, Rosaleen is worried that she will be murdered so her money will go to the Cloades. She is murdered, but not exactly for that reason.
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Taken at the Flood / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
Taken at the Flood / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: How Poirot belatedly caught on to how Rowley and Major Porter were in cahoots. Major Porter offered Poirot a cigarette but knew that Rowley didn't smoke, which he should not have known if it was their first meeting.
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Taken at the Flood / int_4cf9fe88	type	Clueless Mystery
Taken at the Flood / int_4cf9fe88	comment	Clueless Mystery: The big plot twist, that "Rosaleen Cloade" was actually an impostor, a maid named Eileen Corrigan, comes completely out of nowhere.
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Taken at the Flood / int_4f10672d	type	Wrong Guy First
Taken at the Flood / int_4f10672d	comment	Wrong Guy First: A very unusual example. After a fling with undoubtedly evil David, Lynn decides to stay with her fiancÃ© Rowley. Which would be perfectly fine, if not for the fact that he had tried to strangle her in a fit of jealous rage just a few hours earlier.
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Taken at the Flood / int_56996e6a	type	Returning War Vet
Taken at the Flood / int_56996e6a	comment	Returning War Vet: Lynn Marchmont joined up with the Wrens (the Women's Auxiliary of the Royal Navy) and travelled widely, enduring hardship and coming close to combat several times. Returning to her fiancÃ© Rowley, a rather plain man who spent the whole war as a farmer, seems like a letdown to her. David Hunter was in Special Forces or a Commando unit, and learned quite a bit about fighting dirty. It's even mentioned in the story that he's the sort of man who you'd love to have by your side in a fight, but whom you'd best keep a close watch on when the war's over.
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Taken at the Flood / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Taken at the Flood / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: England's rough period of adjustment after World War II. Agatha Christie was of a conservative political bent, so much is made of high taxes making things difficult for rich folks like the Cloades. Besides that there's a lot of talk about the rapid pace of change, and the difficulty of people who served in the war (Lynn, who was a Wren, and David who was with Special Forces) to reintegrate themselves in British domestic life, or how pensioners like Major Porter are struggling with inflation.
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Taken at the Flood / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Taken at the Flood / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The plot is kicked off because Robert Underhay knew that his wife wanted to leave him, but as a Roman Catholic, did not believe in divorce. So he arranged to fake his death in Africa so she would be free to marry again, this time to Gordon Cloade. Things get complicated when somebody shows up and claims that Underhay isn't actually dead.
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Taken at the Flood / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Taken at the Flood / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦: Rowley says this when he finds out about Lynn and David's engagement, and tries to strangle her in a fit of rage. Despite how bad this looks, Lynn takes this as a sign that he really does care for her and they get back together. It helps that he is only guilty of manslaughter.
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Taken at the Flood / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Taken at the Flood / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: David is fiercely protective of his sister. That she isn't actually his sister is a fairly obvious twist that even other characters can see. That she isn't actually Rosaleen is the unexepected one.
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Taken at the Flood / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Taken at the Flood / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Death by Falling Over: How "Enoch Arden" died. Rowley punched him, and he fell over and hit the back of his head on a marble fireplace.
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Taken at the Flood / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Taken at the Flood / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Enoch Arden" is the name of a poem written in 1864 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The titular character is a mariner, shipwrecked and stranded on a desert island, who doesn't return home for eleven and a half years. In the meantime, his wife has mourned him as dead and married another man, and Enoch decides not to interfere, because he sees that she has moved on from him and is happy. Robert Underhay clearly chose this name deliberately, as he appears to enact such a plan. In fact, several jurisdictions now have an "Enoch Arden doctrine" that allows a person to legally remarry if their spouse is absent without explanation for a period of years.
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Taken at the Flood / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Taken at the Flood / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Surprisingly, the suicide actually is a suicide. Major Porter, riven with guilt over perjuring himself in a case that has gotten an innocent man charged with murder, shoots himself. The other suicide, however...
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Taken at the Flood / int_6d7cd3e	type	Dead Person Impersonation
Taken at the Flood / int_6d7cd3e	comment	Dead Person Impersonation: The real Rosaleen turns out to be dead, killed in the blast, and the woman present is just a maid who survived and who David convinced to pose as Rosaleen to get the family money. Charles Trenton as "Enoch Arden", the alias Robert Underhay said he would use, though he doesn't explicitly claim to be Underhay.
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Taken at the Flood / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
Taken at the Flood / int_83a8d697	comment	Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Rosaleen continuously mentions that her keeping her dead husband's money away from his family isn't right, but is reassured that it's legally her money. In fact it isn't her money in the first place, as she's only acting the part of Rosaleen.
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Taken at the Flood / int_94cce63e	type	Fighting Irish
Taken at the Flood / int_94cce63e	comment	Fighting Irish: David's own justification for why he, an Irishman, volunteered to serve in the British army in the war: "But like all the Irish, I like fighting."
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Taken at the Flood / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Taken at the Flood / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Lynn is engaged to her boring cousin Rowley, but becomes smitten with the charming crook David. She decides to marry David, but then it turns out that both men are guilty of killing someone. Since Rowley's crime was only manslaughter, he's the one she ends up with.
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Taken at the Flood / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Taken at the Flood / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Subverted. Rowley snaps, confesses to killing two people and tries to kill Lynn. It later turns out that he is guilty of manslaughter only (and feels responsible for another man's suicide), and he is not in fact the villain of the story. The murderer, on the other hand, only cuts and runs when it's clear Poirot figured everything out, and once caught gives himself up quite calmly.
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Taken at the Flood / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Taken at the Flood / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: More or less, although unlike many of Christie's books only three of the characters are present.
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Taken at the Flood / int_9e622f84	type	Stealing from the Till
Taken at the Flood / int_9e622f84	comment	Similarly, the reason Jeremy Cloade needed money was that he'd been Stealing from the Till (or rather, his clients' trust funds), and there's no indication of his being pursued over this.
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Taken at the Flood / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Taken at the Flood / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: It's implied that Rowley will get away with manslaughter in the end, but it is made clear that, unlike the actual murderer, he feels genuinely remorseful. Similarly, the reason Jeremy Cloade needed money was that he'd been Stealing from the Till (or rather, his clients' trust funds), and there's no indication of his being pursued over this.
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Taken at the Flood / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Taken at the Flood / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Poirot remarks that all of the Cloades, whatever modest steps they took to carve their own paths, never really contemplated a future in which they wouldn't get their hands on Uncle Gordon's fortune, and the moment he died with that fortune in the hands of his young wife was a shock none of them was prepared for.
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Taken at the Flood / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
Taken at the Flood / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Rosaleen turns up dead towards the end. She was killed by her brother David, who wasn't her brother, because she wasn't really Rosaleen.
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Taken at the Flood / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
Taken at the Flood / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The opening scene at the gentlemen's club takes place in 1944, while the rest of the story takes place two years later, when Lynn Marchmont comes home to find out just how broke her in-laws the Cloades are.
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Taken at the Flood / int_bea43fc4	type	Malignant Plot Tumor
Taken at the Flood / int_bea43fc4	comment	Malignant Plot Tumor: There's the murder plot, and then thereâ€™s the Lynn-David-Rowley Love Triangle. By the end, Rowley is seemingly unmasked as the murderer when he finds out that Lynn has chosen David over him, but he turns out to be guilty of manslaughter only. David then turns out to be the other killer, with the motive being marrying Lynn.
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Taken at the Flood / int_bf1c906	type	Trophy Wife
Taken at the Flood / int_bf1c906	comment	Trophy Wife: Presumably the reason why Gordon Cloade, a very rich man of 62, married a good-looking woman of 24 years of age.
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Taken at the Flood / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Taken at the Flood / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Lynn is startled when Aunt Katherine appears at her side out of nowhere.
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Taken at the Flood / int_c8d6d621	type	I Will Wait for You
Taken at the Flood / int_c8d6d621	comment	I Will Wait for You: Lynn declares that, even if Rowley is convicted of manslaughter, she will still wait for him until he gets out of prison.
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Taken at the Flood / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Taken at the Flood / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Gordon Cloade was killed in a German bombing raid, but the cover pictured above shows Avro Lancasters of the Royal Air Force.
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Taken at the Flood / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Taken at the Flood / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Zig-Zagged. There are three deaths in the story, and two are seemingly suicides at first glance. The death of Major Porter was a suicide (Rowley took the suicide note) as a result of the guilt over giving false testimony. "Enoch Arden"'s death was an accident during a fight with Rowley. The death of Rosaleen was murder, however, and her suicide note was fake.
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Taken at the Flood / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Taken at the Flood / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: David and Lynn try to be civil about the situation between their families, but quickly end up sniping at each other from the moment they first meet. The relationship finally turns romantic when he plants one on her in the middle of an argument.
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Taken at the Flood / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
Taken at the Flood / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: The old lady at the inn is a horribly offensive Racist Grandma who is further marked out as antagonistic by having "a flourishing moustache." She also turns out to be a key witness.
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Taken at the Flood / int_d85c505	type	Racist Grandma
Taken at the Flood / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Grandma: The old lady at the inn, who sees Poirot in the guest lounge and goes on a horribly offensive rant about how foreigners should go back to where they came from, and how British teenaged girls are getting knocked up by "Americans! N***rs! Polish riffraff!"
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Taken at the Flood / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Taken at the Flood / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Lynn's attraction to David Hunter has a lot to do with this trope, especially when compared to her stale romance with Rowley. In the end, she realizes that she actually loves Rowley when he tries to strangle her in a jealous fit.
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Taken at the Flood / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Taken at the Flood / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Most of the confusion in the investigation comes from the fact that there doesnâ€™t seem to be a motive for killing all the victims. Or rather, there are very clear motives for some people, but none of them could have committed the murders. As turns out, the first death was an accident while the second was a genuine suicide. Only the third and final death was a murder, with a very simple motive.
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Taken at the Flood / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Taken at the Flood / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: David Hunter runs off when Poirot gives the proof behind the murders, but later surrenders to the police without a fight, admitting that luck has run out and there is no point in resisting any further.
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Taken at the Flood / int_e201cc	type	The Bore
Taken at the Flood / int_e201cc	comment	The Bore: The first sentence of the novel is "In every club there is a club bore." It's Major Porter, who at the Coronation Club tells a story about Robert Underhay maybe not being dead that nobody cares about—except, that is, for Jeremy Cloade who happens to be there.
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Taken at the Flood / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
Taken at the Flood / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: David disguises himself as a woman after walking in on a crime scene staged to incriminate him. He puts on makeup and female clothing, and then stages a two-person conversation to create a fake female suspect.
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Taken at the Flood / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Taken at the Flood / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Poirot remarks on how readily David Hunter appears to be willing to give in to blackmail, as he's the sort of clever and dangerous man would wouldn't pay. It's his first hint that something about it doesn't make sense.
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Taken at the Flood / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Taken at the Flood / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Zigzagged. Lynn looks through her mother's bills and sees that while they are quite high, none of them are really extravagant or unnecessary. However, as soon as they're paid off her mother considers hiring another gardener.
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Taken at the Flood / int_f2bb1fb4	type	Let Off by the Detective
Taken at the Flood / int_f2bb1fb4	comment	Let Off by the Detective: Rowley is not strictly a murderer, really, but he's certainly guilty of involuntary manslaughter after he punched Charles Trenton and Trenton fell over and died. He also conspired to suborn perjury, to commit fraud to deprive Rosaleen of the Cloade fortune, and to frame David for Trenton's murder, both by planting evidence (the lighter and the watch) and bashing the freshly dead Charles's head in with the poker. He also committed assault and battery on Lynn while in a jealous rage, trying to strangle her, and he probably would have strangled her if Poirot hadn't shown up Just in Time. Poirot lets all that go at the end.
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Taken at the Flood / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Taken at the Flood / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Lynn forgives Rowley for accidentally killing a man and trying to strangle her. In fact, she seems to be more interested in him than ever.
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Taken at the Flood / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
Taken at the Flood / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Major Porter calls Rosaleen a "gold digger" for marrying his friend Gordon Cloade. His dislike of Rosaleen proves crucial to the plot.
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Taken at the Flood / int_f8c08650	type	Motive = Conclusive Evidence
Taken at the Flood / int_f8c08650	comment	Motive = Conclusive Evidence: Inverted. Poirot remarks on the irony that the Cloade family had the greatest motive to want Rosaleen dead, but the person who did kill her had the least motive to do so.
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Taken at the Flood / int_fced5df7	type	Disposable FiancÃ©
Taken at the Flood / int_fced5df7	comment	Disposable FiancÃ©: Rowley is presented as a dull but stable option for Lynn. Their engagement is broken off when she falls for the more interesting David. Subverted in the end, when she goes back to Rowley after he proves to be less dull after all, what with the attempted murder and manslaughter.
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Taken at the Flood / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
Taken at the Flood / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: How Charles Trenton, the first victim, really died: Rowley punched him and he fell over and hit his head.
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