# Is "Taken at the Flood (US: There Is a Tide...)" by Agatha Christie a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Taken at the Flood (US: There Is a Tide...) by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1948) is identified by: The US Dodd, Mead edition was published in March 1948 under the title There Is a Tide...; the UK Collins Crime Club edition followed in November 1948 under Christie's original title Taken at the Flood — a gap of about eight months. The US Dodd, Mead edition (There Is a Tide..., March 1948) precedes the UK Collins edition (November 1948) by roughly eight months, so the US printing is the true first, not the UK edition as originally recorded.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- A Poirot novel
- The US Dodd, Mead edition was published in March 1948 under the title There Is a Tide...; the UK Collins Crime Club edition followed in November 1948 under Christie's original title Taken at the Flood — a gap of about eight months
- Publisher imprint reads Dodd, Mead and Company
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead and Company |
| Year | 1948 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | A Poirot novel |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
A Poirot novel. The US Dodd, Mead edition was published in March 1948 under the title There Is a Tide...; the UK Collins Crime Club edition followed in November 1948 under Christie's original title Taken at the Flood — a gap of about eight months.

## Is this the true first?
The US Dodd, Mead edition (There Is a Tide..., March 1948) precedes the UK Collins edition (November 1948) by roughly eight months, so the US printing is the true first, not the UK edition as originally recorded.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
Later printings and reprints follow the 1948 first editions.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Taken at the Flood (US: There Is a Tide...)* by Agatha Christie a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/taken-at-the-flood-us-there-is-a-tide
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-03.