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| Original Title: | Death in the Clouds |
| ISBN: | 000711933X (ISBN13: 9780007119332) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Hercule Poirot Mysteries #12 |
| Characters: | Inspector Japp, Hercule Poirot |
| Setting: | France Croydon, England,1935 |
Agatha Christie
Paperback | Pages: 333 pages Rating: 3.81 | 29990 Users | 1537 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #12) |
| Author | : | Agatha Christie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 333 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by HarperCollins (first published March 10th 1935) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Classics. Detective. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. European Literature. British Literature |
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AUDIOBOOK LISTENED TO IN 2020Firstly let's say it's a shame that this does not have a separate entry as it is the audiobook of the novel read by Hugh Fraser and its good !!My wife and I listened to this audiobook whilst decorating over the last few days and at 6 hours its a jolly good listen. Hugh Fraser does have a penchant for narrating, and for the various voices he uses without it sounding too contrived.I would say the audiobook is a solid 5 stars as is the book itself.POIROT BUDDY READ FROMThis may not be one of Christie's slickest plots (it re-uses elements we've seen before) but it's one of the funniest: Christie has a lot of fun with Mr Clancy, her thriller writer, as well as with her murder where a woman is killed on board a plane with a blow-pipe and a mysterious poison...! As ever, the clues are scrupulously placed in full view though I did have a head-scratching moment at the big reveal. Entertaining, clever, and with Poirot doing a lot of match-making!
Not one of Agatha Christie's best novels but enjoyable nonetheless. The usual formula ... a murder and a small group of suspects. What makes this story unusual is the setting. During a flight from Paris to Croydon a passenger is found dead. Apparently the victim of a poison dart from a blowgun. No one saw anything. Not even Poirot who was sleeping. This is 1935 and there were only a few passengers in the section of the plane where the murder took place. But how could someone shoot a poison dart
Hercule Poirot in on a flight from Paris to London. Having fallen asleep, he wakes up to quite a commotion. Madame Giselle, the woman in the seat behind his, is found dead, apparently due to the sting of a wasp that had been previously seen in the cabin. But being who he is, Poirot is not so sure that is the truth when he sees a dart located near the body. That dart is discovered to be coated with snake venom. With a flying crime scene, the suspect has to be one of the eleven people on board.
Even in a very last moment I couldn't guess the murderer.
This is the book that Agatha Christie wrote after she'd had her run-in with the Doctor, and it shows. I contend that Jean is the Doctor... Okay, that was my nerd moment. It's a fun read, as always, with a good solution. One nice thing about Agatha Christie is that she gives you all the clues. It isn't like she says, last minute, "And I knew you were the murderer because your fingerprints were on the gun!" If fingerprints are on the gun (which they never are, of course), you know as soon as the
A woman on a plane in the middle of a flight was killed by a poison dart. Thus we have the settings where Agatha Christie always shines: a limited number of suspects all of them with some hidden agenda. Poirot to the rescue! Speaking about the great detective - he was on fateful flight. Unfortunately due to his stomach not agreeing with flying (or in the layman term: his fear of flying) he was asleep the whole time thus missing the moment when somebody used a blowpipe to send a dart toward the
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