Description
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.
Katherine Brown –
Agatha Christie’s takes murder to the skies in Death in the Clouds; while Poirot snoozes on his flight from Paris to Croydon, a most audacious murder takes place: death by the poisoned tip of a dart delivered by the puff of a blowpipe. The list of suspects is limited to the persons in the cabin, limited to the time between her coffee being delivered and her body discovered, and no-one saw anything!
A true Christie classic.