Taken at the Flood, Agatha Christie
The Book In the tiny town of Warmsley Vale, a young widow of an older rich man, Mr. Gordon Cloade, is in a lot of danger. Rosaleen Cloade, formerly Mrs. Underhay, is a woman very much under the thumb of her protective brother, David Hunter. Rosaleen is sweet, pretty and dumb. Gordon's family, his brothers Jeremey and Lionel, both professionals, his sister, Mrs. Adela Marchmont, and other distant members of the family have all been benevolently helped out by Gordon's generous hand throughout the years. But his marriage to the pretty young Rosaleen has disinherited them. All of the Cloades want her dead, for under those circumstances Uncle Gordon's sizable fortune is divided between them all equally. As they all contemplate that, a man, purported Enoch Arden, arrives in Warmsely Vale and promptly tries to blackmail David. David gets his sister out of town, and together in London they try to raise the money to pay the man off. David returns on the appointed day, ...
