There is a Tide - Hercule Poirot, Bk 27 Author: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 him... more »self on a trail as baffling as any he ever encountered.