Hercule Poirot #12
Death in the Clouds
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.
How could this happen with the world's No. 1 private detective on board?
336 pages, Paperback
First published March 10,1935
This edition
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336 pages, Paperback
- Published
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January 1, 2001 by HarperCollins
- ISBN
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9780007119332
- ASIN
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000711933X
- Language
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English
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Detective Chief Inspector James Japp
Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christies novels featuring Hercule Poirot.Japps career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Has...
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Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
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Jane Grey (death In The Clouds)
A young woman who works as a hairdresser at Antoines in London. She is travelling on the Prometheus in seat #16. Returning from holiday in Le Pinet (on the French Mediterranean) and Paris.more...
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Madame Giselle
She too is a passenger. Sitting at the rear in seat #2. Her maid is Elise. Madame had previously suffered from smallpox....
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James Ryder
A businessman whose seat is #4 on the flight....
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Monsieur Armand Dupont
Archeologist. Father of Jean. Sitting in seat #5. The Duponts have been conducting excavations in Persia recently....
About the author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
