Death in the Clouds (Poirot)

Agatha Christie

Oct 2010 · HarperCollins UK

About this eBook

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane...

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.

What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Ratings and reviews

From the beginning till the end you keep on changing the views about who the killer was but in the end, as usual, it is way more unexpected. The connections between the passengers is smooth and the way the murder was committed later revealed in the end was brilliant! Wonderful Poirot and his little grey cells. Really good!

the little things that people say, tell a whole lot where they have been to and intend to do.

Wonderful! You can't guess correct till nearly the end!

About the author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.