Elephants Can Remember vs Taken at the Flood: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Détectives, Poirot, Hercule Poirot, Private investigators, England, English literature
Elephants Can Remember
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember;2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective."The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that…
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Taken at the Flood
A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Elephants Can Remember has the widest readership — 51485 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Elephants Can Remember | Taken at the Flood | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.7 (51485) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.4 (112) | 3.6 (72) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (80) | 4.0 (32) |
Reception
| Elephants Can Remember | Taken at the Flood | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 51485 | 72 |
| Editions | 110 | 85 |
| Citations | — | 20 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 25560 | — |
| Reading it now | 1424 | — |
| Written reviews | 3704 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 2522 | 3190 |
| Pages | 224 | 226 |