from imdb represent hercule poirot find himself try to solve the mystery of the cloade family . rosaleen be the young widow of gordon cloade who be kill in a gas explosion in his london home . rosaleen have inherit her late husband substantial fortune and she and her brother david hunter be refuse to share it with other member of gordon cloade family . there have be persistent rumor that rosaleen first husband and an intrepid explorer and be still alive and a such would nullify her marriage to gordon . what poirot learn however be of a far great deception that will alter everyone perception of what they believe to their reality . take at the flood have to be one of my very least favorite of the entire poirot series ( i dislike it so much that i do not even bother to write my own plot synopsis ) . i be never a huge fan of the book and but this adaptation have some real weakness and problem that i just can not get past . chief among them be that it never feel like an agatha christie story . who decide to sauce up christie work with all the sex and talk of abortion . i suppose it be do in an attempt to attract the more modern viewer . what about those of u who watch these movie because they aren not fill with the same garbage you can find in every other modern movie . beyond the bastardization of chirsite novel and the denouement be terribly disappointing . poirot bring up thing about a murder that happen year ago that and not only would poirot have have no way of knowing and the audience couldn not begin to come up with the solution . kreskin couldn not have come up with half the thing poirot reveals . and it not a much fun when you can not play along . i realize that christie would often spring a surprise or two during one of poirot final monologue and but here poirot offer no proof . base on the evidence and his accusation seem to be little more than wild speculation .