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    • Death in the Clouds is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in 1935. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp. It is a "closed circle" murder mystery: the victim is a passenger on a cross-Channel aircraft flight, and the perpetrator can only be one of eleven fellow-passengers and crew. The book … See more

    Plot summary

    Hercule Poirot travels back to England on the midday flight from Le Bourget Airfield in Paris to Croydon Airport in … See more

    Reception

    The Times Literary Supplement of 4 July 1935 summarized thus: "Any of the other nine passengers and two stewards could be suspected. And all of them were, including Clancy, the writer of detective stories, wh… See more

    Originally publishedMarch 10, 1935
    GenreMystery · Fiction · Crime · Classics · Detective · Mystery Thriller · Murder Mystery · Thriller · British Literature
    Main characters

    Hercule Poirot, Belgian private detective. Passenger on the aeroplane.
    • Jane Gray, hairdresser. Passenger on the aeroplane.
    • Cicely, Countess of Horbury (née Bland). Passenger on the aeroplane. In debt to Madame Gi… See more

    References or allusions

    • In Chapter 6, Monsieur Fournier makes reference to Monsieur Giraud, the French detective whom Poirot meets in Murder on the Links.
    • In Chapter 7, Poirot refers to a case of poisoning in which the killer uses a "psychologi… See more

    Adaptations

    The novel was adapted as an episode for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, in 1992. It starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, and Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector James Japp. Although the adaptation remained largely faith… See more

    In popular culture

    • The novel is referenced notably in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp", which featured both the Doctor and Donna meeting Agatha Christie in the year 1926, and investigating a series of murders alongside h… See more

    Publication history

    • Death in the Air (hardcover), New York: Dodd Mead and Company, 10 March 1935, 304 pp.
    • Death in the Clouds (hardcover), London: Collins Crime Club, July 1935, 256 pp.… See more

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