Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds
Agatha Christie

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.

Death in the Clouds

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Ebook Edition © May 2015 ISBN: 9780007422272

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To Ormond Beadle

Passengers

Seat

No. 2 Madame Giselle

No. 4 James Ryder

No. 5 Monsieur Armand Dupont

No. 6 Monsieur Jean Dupont

No. 8 Daniel Clancy

No. 9 Hercule Poirot

No. 10 Doctor Bryant

No. 12 Norman Gale

No. 13 The Countess of Horbury

No. 16 Jane Grey

No. 17 The Hon. Venetia Kerr

Contents

Cover (#u37bb0955-6b2c-5598-b1fc-965b515c7efa)

Title Page (#u862356f9-df2d-5cbc-a9d6-008c5fccbfa5)

Copyright (#u5f33851f-2946-5045-b587-b97c0c2cf82e)

Dedication (#uc6c1c579-c625-5370-8f2d-fef592790e47)

CHAPTER 1: Paris to Croydon (#u8bf4ac5e-f67a-53e4-9e08-f3b5d19bfccd)

CHAPTER 2: Discovery (#ub5b3bb3a-327b-5c15-8880-f81fb1b0685c)

CHAPTER 3: Croydon (#u7d299436-8471-5507-a5c8-7e758e324e34)

CHAPTER 4: The Inquest (#u57db51b9-86ec-5b8f-8ec5-fee3256898e0)

CHAPTER 5: After the Inquest (#udc58f9c4-c1cb-5c37-b79e-c74f2e535297)

CHAPTER 6: Consultation (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 7: Probabilities (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 8: The List (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 9: Elise Grandier (#litres_trial_promo)