Death in the Clouds

by Agatha Christie

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.

• ISBN13: 9780007119332
• Publish Date: 3 March 2008 (first published May 1969)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 3 June 2017
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[Aidan Brack (Mysteries Ahoy)]

This boasts a memorable setting and method of murder but I was unconvinced by the solution.

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[brokentune]

3.5*
I don't have much to say about this one other than that I enjoyed the mystery and enjoyed Poirot's interactions with Miss Grey.

For all the things that make the story memorable, this is the third time I have read the story and still could not remember who the villain of the piece was. So, the actual motive and murderer are less memorable than the circumstances of the crime.