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    Death in the Clouds

    Written by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 12, 2006
    ISBN9780007248551
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    Death in the Clouds
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 2/5
      Not a good enough mystery to make up for the appalling casual racism.

      "They disliked loud voices, noisy restaurants and negroes ... It seemed almost miraculous that two people should have so many points of agreement."
    • 4/5
      This is a really good book but I can’t be bothered to write a review about it
    • 4/5
      I liked this one a lot, but I did catch on to who the murderer was by the end. So either I'm getting better at this, or Christie was weaker - you be the judge! It is definitely classic Poirot and a must read for Christie fans.
    • 5/5
      An impossible crime story, similar to a locked room mystery. All is great fun, which is why I give it 5 stars. Right up to the solution, which is absurd nonsense. Turns out yes, it really was impossible!Many details of the story are jokes. I assume that the ending is sarcastic self-parody, ridiculing her fans for putting up with such silliness.(The boomslang is real. The name is cognate to the words beam schlong. The venom is quite different from what is described in the novel. She just made that up. She became a poisons expert during WWI. That was part of the reason she started writing detective stories.)
    • 3/5
      You know it's an old-school Christie mystery when tehre's a map in the front of where the murder happens (on an airplane in this case). It's got twists, a love interest, and a hint of the sentimental side of Poirot. Not her best but not her worst either.
    • 3/5
      This is a Hercule Poirot mystery and as you would expect the least likely person turned out to be the murderer. Could Madam Giselle really have been murdered by a poisoned dart and could the murder weapon really have been a blowpipe? All the passengers on the small plane flight from France to England are now under suspicion! A light easy read….
    • 5/5
      Entertaining as always but my suspicion was right about the murder.
    • 4/5
      Abridged audiobook on 3 CDs, read by David Timson. A passenger aboard a plane between France and England is found dead, apparently of a wasp sting. Poirot rapidly finds evidence otherwise, and what appears to be the murder weapon -- placed where Poirot is the most likely suspect. Poirot knows he isn't the killer, but in proving himself innocent, he will also need to correctly identify the real killer, lest some other innocent be wrongly convicted by one of the many false clues.The abridged audiobook is well edited, and ably read by Timson, but as always suffers somewhat from the abridgement. I enjoyed listening to it even though I haven't read the novel in decades and remembered nothing about it; but I am minded to try the unabridged version read by Hugh Fraser the next time I want to listen to it.
    • 5/5
      Death In The Air (1935) (Poirot #12) by Agatha Christie. This is a classic locked room murder mystery with an inversion: all the suspects are in the room when the individual is murdered. In fact, Poirot is the main suspect from among the very small number of passengers aboard the plane. During a flight from Paris to Croydon, England, Madame Giselle, a well respected Parisian blackmailer is murdered in her seat. There are ten passengers left alive at the end of the flight, including Poirot, as well as two stewards and a maid, so one of these must be the killer.No one was seen attacking the victim, no one could have done it, the weapon, is so exotic that it points to only two people, and the entire thing is a total mystery. Except to Poirot.There is flirtation, there is drama, red herrings to fill a fish market, a romance sparks and a cold blooded killer sits amount the innocent. Is it the dentist, the crime writer, the archeologists, the countess, or one of the others? All are shown to have the possibility of a motive, but only one could have struck the deadly blow. An intriguing puzzle set in an impossible situation, but fortunately Poirot is on the case. It is imperative that he solve as, after all, Is was the one best suited and situated to actually have done the deed. Who better to save him from the gallows than himself.
    • 4/5
      I love how complex each case is and how unpredictable the endings are.
    • 5/5
      This book is a great and clever mystery with a colorful story and detailed characters...especially Mr.poirit
    • 4/5
      London, Paris, ca 1935.Hercule Poirot er ombord på en flyvning Paris - London. Madame Giselle, med det rigtige navn Marie Angélique Morisot - en berømt pengeudlåner - dør ombord og Poirot opdager en lille pusterørspil med gift på spidsen. Pusterøret bliver fundet bag hans eget sæde og ved ligsynet er nævningene mistænksomme overfor Poirot.De øvrige passagerer er James Ryder, Monsieur Armand Dupont, Monsieur Jean Dupont, Daniel Clancy, Doctor Bryant, Norman Gale, Hertuginden af Horbury, Jane Grey og Venetia Kerr.Poirot, inspektør Japp og den franske politimand Fournier (som har hørt om Poirot gennem M. Giraud) efterforsker Madame Giselle's forskellige kunder. Giselle havde altid en klemme på sine kunder og brugte den, hvis de ikke ville betale.Madame Giselle's datter Anne Morisot dukker op, blot for kort efter at blive dræbt af sin mand James Richards alias Norman Gale. Poirot afslører dette og har hele tiden mistænkt Norman fordi han havde en lille æske med på flyet.Oveni opklaringen spiller Poirot giftekniv for Jane Grey og Jean Dupont, og for lord Horbury og Venetia Kerr.Glimrende Poirot mysterie.
    • 4/5
      It always amazes how Mrs. Christie was able to concoct so many crimes in her mind. Another very good book, with a surprising, yet, quite simple ending. Highly recommend.
    • 3/5
      I think I experience reader's block. Reading this book proved to be one too many. As I've been reading a lot of Agatha Christie books for the past months, fatigue has set in. This is compounded by the lower quality that this book exudes. It's just that Agatha Christie makes the reading experience fluid and cool and soothing...hence the 3 stars. It's a book that I've read in the distant past and it left no impression on me then and it doesn't do much now. Mind you, I'd rather read books like this than some of the bestsellers that pass for thrillers these days.Reading through mediocre(which this book isn't quite) books generally sets the bar low, and bam, there you have your acquired taste.
    • 2/5
      Was okay, very typical,starting to think that maybe it's because of the translation... or maybe Christie is not interesting 2 me as be4?
    • 3/5
      It's almost always easy to read an Agatha Christie in one sitting. (So far, the only mysteries of AC's that took me a long time to read are the Jane Marple mysteries). Hercule Poirot is always engaging (so far).

      Death in the Clouds tackles the usual elements of AC's, psychology, the multiple suspects, the red herrings, etc. And the romance sub-plot is always welcome. The plot twist was good, but since I read Cards on the Table, it doesn't compare to that.

      It was a pleasant interlude after reading "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which was more of a heavy - but pleasant - reading.
    • 4/5
      Probably one of the more famous Poirot books by Agatha Christie. I consider this to be a good solid one of the mysteries. If one compares them closely with newer Murder Mysteries it will seem a little quaint and Poirot a little to self indulgent but that is part of the charm.Poirot is flying back from Paris when a woman is murdered on the same plane just a few seats away. Due to motion sickness Poirot was trying to sleep through the flight and didn't see anything but was none-the-less upset about this deed happening right under his nose.
    • 4/5
      On a flight from Paris, the close confines lead to murder, and a true challenge for Hercule Poirot.

      The old closed-environment murder is nicely utilised on board an aeroplane from Paris to Croydon. It’s a powerful, intricately-constructed little mystery, and possibly the greatest test of Poirot’s little gray cells in the entire canon. Many elements make this little novel remarkable: Poirot and Japp remain an unbeatable pairing (the David Suchet/Philip Jackson film adaptation plays up this angle to a great degree). The wealth of suspects – as in the best closed-room mysteries – are all fascinating, viable candidates (as in "Murder on the Orient Express"), without coming across as contrived (as in "Death on the Nile"). The solution itself certainly borders on the unlikely, but every element is so skillfully handled that it comes across as, at the very least, possible. Every clue is introduced fairly into the story, but – with a feat of legerdemain she knew so well – Christie seemingly plays her hand several times, while really obfuscating the most important clues, and continuing to up the ante against Poirot, chapter after chapter. It’s a prime example of Christie as compiler of puzzles.

      At the end of the day, this is a read that should leave you satisfied, whether you figure out the killer or – far more likely! – not.

      Poirot ranking: 3rd of 38.
    • 4/5
      When my grandmother died, we had a ton of books to go through. Granted, most of them were Harlequin romances (at one time, she subscribed to like 3 different lines, that?s like 18 books a month! And she read and KEPT most of them!) but hidden inside the upper shelves were some treasures. She had what I strongly suspect is the complete (1st edition) set of the Pollyanna books by Eleanor H. Potter, many MANY Zane Grey?s (my Papa was a fan), and a few Agatha Christie?s. I brought Pollyanna and Agatha home with me. And maybe a couple Zane?s, just for sentimental sake.Now, I?ve read all the Pollyanna?s. But I haven?t touched the Agatha?s. For some reason, I had it in my mind that I wouldn?t like Agatha Christie, which is absolutely preposterous, I suppose. Obviously her books are extremely popular, but I have never read a piece of detective fiction I was all that crazy about (Sherlock Holmes aside. That man holds a special place in my heart). I?ve always wondered about her though, so when the Classics Circuit decided to do Agatha Christie, I jumped on in, to finally bite the bullet and see what?s so great about Ms. Christie. I looked at the three books I had, Death in the Air, Murder in Mesopotamia, and Murder in the Calais Coach, picked the cleanest one (because wow, are they old and dirty!) and dived in.Now, my copy is so old (it was published in 1935), it has the original title. If you go look up Death in the Air, most of the hits come back Death in the Clouds. Its pages are yellow, the type is?like?a typewriter (!) which I love to pieces, the cover is a lovely shade of blood red?. From page one; the stage was set for me to love this book, based on looks alone of course. So, how did it the writing measure up? The September sun beat down hotly on Le Bourget aerodome as the passengers crossed the ground and climbed into the air liner ?Prometheus,? due to depart for Croydon in a few minutes? time.My first line from an Agatha Christie novel! And there is no hanging around; Christie immediately gets down to business. All the suspects are introduced, even as the crime is going down. The crime is not described at all, but it?s happening as the players are being set. Brilliant! What?s even better? The famous Hercule Poirot is also aboard the plane! Christie sucked me right in. And the crime? Famous money-lenderer to the rich and titled, Madame Giselle has been poisoned.Da da dum!With a poisoned South American blowdart dipped in snake venom! ?This object, gentlemen, is the native thorn shot from a blowpipe by certain tribes-er-I cannot be exactly certain now if it is South American tribes or weather it is the inhabitants of Borneo which I have in mind.But that is undoubtedly a native dart that has been aimed by a blowpipe, and I strongly suspect that on the tip is the famous arrow poison of the South American Indians,? finished Hercule Poirot. And he added, ?Mais enfin! Est-ce que c?est possible??Each passenger is examined and a few have a possibly motive, but the opportunity is hard to discover. After the jury at the inquest finds that murder was committed, by person?s unknown, Poirot, his friend Inspector Japp, and a french officer named Fournier split up the suspects and begin to investigate. Poirot reminds me so much of Sherlock Holmes. He gives off an air of?oh??I already know what happened, I?m just looking for the clues to confirm it? kind of air. Love it!Death in the Air was pretty much what I was expecting and more. I am surprised by just how much I enjoyed this book! The writing is pretty much what I was expecting, but the tongue-in-cheek humor? I should have know, it being a British book and the British having that unique sense of humor, but I was surprised. For instance, one of the suspects, Mr. Clancy, is a detective and crime fiction writer. ?I don?t think it?s healthy for a man to be always brooding over crime and detective stories. Reading up all sorts of cases. It puts ideas into his head.? ?It is certainly necessary for a writer to have ideas in his head,? agreed Poirot.Classic!As for the mystery? I read with my trusty notebook, taking notes, doing my own detective work?and I was wrong! I did not guess the murderer, like I thought I would. My first Agatha Christie was exciting, fun to read, and I will be reading more. I?m so glad I joined the tour and finally found out what reading a Christie was like!
    • 4/5
      This is classic Christie - a murder in an enclosed space with a limited number of suspects. Poirot tracks down the murderer, of course, ably assisted by two suspects in the murder who can't have done it - or could they? Fantastic.
    • 4/5
      Dame Agatha scores again with this high-altitude locked-room mystery, wherein Hercule Poirot is present but sleeping when a woman is murdered aboard an airplane flying from France to England. I enjoyed all the twists and turns, even though (unusually for me) I actually sussed out the killer quite early on, thanks to the author playing fair with the clues. But even though I was pretty sure I knew WHOdunit, I was foggy on both the HOWdunit and WHYdunit, and in both cases was not disappointed by the reveal.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyed the story as such, but at the end when the identity of the murderer is revealed to the reader by Poirot, I felt quite disappointed, since I believe there was no way I as a reader could have found it out myself with the given information. Usually, Christie does manage to give all clues to the reader in her stories.

      That's why it's only a 3 from me, and no 4 this time.
    • 5/5
      I read a lot of Agatha Christie in my youth. Now I am rediscovering them a few decades later and they are just as good. Poirot is such a wonderfully in-depth and interesting character!
    • 5/5
      A passenger is murdered on a flight from Paris to London. Unfortunately for the murderer, Hercule Poirot is also a passenger on the flight. Both French and British authorities are involved with the investigation, but neither are a match for the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot.Agatha Christie must have had fun writing this one, as the passengers include a mystery novelist and a pair of archaeologists. (Christie's second husband was an archaeologist.) If you haven't yet read any of Christie's novels, this would be a great place to start!
    • 3/5
      Great period piece. A murder is committed right under Poirot's airsick nose on a cross channel plane. Many on board prove to have had a motive, can Poirot see his way to itdentifying the real killer? Good fun early Poirot with a nice flavour of early air travel glamour.
    • 5/5
      Murder in a plane. Love me some Christie, she has some of the best crime novels!
    • 5/5
      Published in 1935, this "locked room" mystery takes place in a commercial plane flying between Paris and Croydon airport. A French woman is found poisoned, and an incongruous blowpipe and dart smeared with snake venom is found stuffed down the side of Hercule Poirot's seat. Needless to say, all is not as it seems, and where does the wasp fit in? The usual varied cast of Christie archetypes are present: the objectionable aristocrat; the earnest young man; the plucky young lady he is in love with; and so on. Also present are two French archaeologists - this was in the early years of Christie's marriage to her second husband, middle East archaeologist Max Mallowan. A Christie tour de force this, very intricately and tightly plotted, almost an exercise in analysis as much as a novel - it should be as well known as some of her others such as Murder on the Orient Express or Death on the Nile, but has only ever been adapted for the screen once, as part of the David Suchet Poirot series.
    • 3/5
      Death... FROM ABOVE!
    • 5/5
      This is a fascinating novel from a number of points of view.To start with, because of its setting, it is very obviously a "locked room" mystery. If Mme Giselle's death is murder then the murderer has to have been on the plane. Hercule Poirot, that inveterate sufferer from mal-de-mer, is concentrating on not being a victim of mal-de-air, and feels a great deal of chagrin that murder has taken place under his very nose, or to be more precise, under his closed eyes.For air travellers amongst us, travel on this plane was very different, and much more in keeping with travelling by train or by steamer. To start with luggage, rugs and other paraphernalia are heaped rather untidily at the end of the cabin, which Agatha Christie keeps calling a "car".At the front of the book is a diagram of the rear "car" of the plane Prometheus, which clearly shows that some of the seats are arranged in "facing" sets of 4.And just a final point about this setting - the windows of the plane have little air vents, big enough to have passed a blow pipe through. They obviously didn't fly at 37,000 feet.The investigation of the murder is jointly conducted by Poirot, the French detective Fournier and Inspector Japp from Scotland Yard, and each brings a different quality to its conduct. Poirot and Fournier are both interested in the psychology of crime.In the following Poirot, Fournier and Japp are talking about perception, and how we interpret what happens in the light of other observations (or perhaps what we don't notice)Fournier says .... when a lady dies suddenly of heart failure, if a man is to drop his handkerchief and stoop to pick it up, who will notice the action or think twice about it?I really enjoyed the interaction between these 3.Finally we see a further development of the romantic side of Hercule Poirot's character, when he lets a society lady off lightly and gives a young orphan a gentle push towards love.
    • 5/5
      One of the most lovable Poirot stories with the most charming ending. Superbly read by Hugh Fraser!