Death in the Clouds

On the short flight from Le Bourget to Croydon the woman in seat number two dies from a wasp sting. Hercule Poirot is also on the flight and he is not convinced that a wasp sting caused the death. Poirot has a large cast of characters to choose from in this ‘locked-room’ mystery and working with Scotland Yard and the Sûreté he sets out to discover the truth in his very methodical way.

Year: 1935
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: On a plane

Cast of characters

Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp. Also: Raymond Barraclough, Dr. Roger James Bryant, Daniel Clancy, Davis, Lord Dawlish, Armand and Jean Dupont, Monsieur Fournier, Norman Gale, Madame Giselle, Elise Grandier, Jane Grey, Lord Stephen and Lady Cicely Horbury, The Honourable Venetia Anne Kerr, Andrew Leech, Henry Charles and Ruth Mitchell, Anne Morisot, Jules Perrot, Miss Ross, James Bell Ryder, Maitre Alexandre Thibault, Dr. James Whistler, Detective Sergeant Wilson, Henry Winterspoon, Monsieur Zeropoulos

Publishing history

Publishing: First published in 1935 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and as 'Death in the Air' by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. TV: Adapted in 1992 by LWT in the UK, and was also shown on PBS in the U.S.

Notes and reviews

Christie satirizes both her own and her husband's profession in this novel with the character Daniel Clancy, a detective story writer and a couple of French archaeologists.

Murder methods:

Two Poisonings.

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