Back in the days when I was really into Agatha Christie, I decided I really only liked her Hercule Poirot mysteries. After reading this, I remember why. They have greater complexity (thanks to Poirot's little grey cells) and fewer boring society details than Christie's other mysteries. I really enjoyed reconnecting with M. Poirot in this story.
What's really cool is that I guessed who the murderer was right at the start, doggedly stood by my first guess, and I turned out to be right! That's neve More...

Standard Christie. Includes delightful dialogue, such as: "What an extraordinarily rum little beggar."

I always learn some obscure English expression when I read a Christie novel. In this one, a character complains that one of her clients has "a voice like a corncrake." I found out that a corncrake is a drab little bird and that "the 'crex-crex' sound of the corncrake has been compared with two cheese-graters rubbed together, producing a sound so monotonous as to qualify the bird as the world's w More...

Review: ‘Death in the Clouds’ is another masterly work by the queen of mysteries Agatha Christie. It is a Hercule Poirot novel and those who have read him before don’t need any further reason as to why they should pick up this one. The eccentricities, the endearing quirkiness and the intriguing brain of this short, egg-headed man are qualities which have made him one of the most well-known literary characters of all times.

‘Death in the Clouds’ is another murder mystery which Poirot solves using More...

For a while, I was scared that I read most of the Poirot series, but this book has given me hope that I still have many more left to read(: Death in the Clouds is particularly interesting for me because it involves air travel.

Unfortunately, poor M. Poirot suffers from air-sickness, which is why he was asleep when the murder of Mdm Giselle occurred. In fact, the murder weapon, a blowpipe, was found stuffed in his seat, which is why our dear detective was suspected by the jury! Thankfully, the cor More...

lately i've been doing a lot of theoretical reading on detective fiction, a genre i grew up reading and still immensely enjoy (which will be no surprise at all to goodreads friends). the general consensus seems to be to regard the classic detective as an agent of the state (whose power is in a way insidious, because he obfuscates the mechanics of state power and ideology in his opposition to police authority). part of me can see how this works, but part of me also thinks that reducing the genre' More...

Death in the Clouds is a classic locked room mystery - a murder is committed in a space occupied by thirteen people, yet no-one witnesses the crime and all of them could conceivably have a motive for the death. Christie excels at creating such puzzles and telling them in an engaging, often witty voice, that is all show and no tell. The secret is clever plotting that slowly reveals how various elements of the murder were committed and why, but which keep as many suspects in the frame as possible More...

This is a very good Agatha Christie mystery, not that there is a bad Agatha Christie mystery. I love her writing style. I always feel like the criminal is right at my fingertips and I love my frustrated bumblings at trying to solve the crime! In this novel, the crime is stunning. The method is interesting and engaging; I had never read about a crime committed in the same way. I love the setting; an airplane with Hercule Poirot (undoubtedly one of literature's greatest detectives) sitting mere fe More...

This excellent early Agatha kept me up late because I *had* to know whodunnit. The setting is novel and extremely charming: air travel in the mid-1930s, where there is almost no security and a four-course meal is served on a lunch flight! How nice that must have been. The aeroplane allows Christie a fresh variation on the classic closed setting with its finite number of suspects--she's used trains, boats, and manor houses, so why not a 'plane? Hercule Poirot, snoozing in his seat because he is a More...

This book (also published as "Death in the Air") is vintage Christie because of the way she has a murder committed in a roomful (in this case planeful) of people and yet no one can see this audacious murder being committed. Unfortunately for our killer, Hercule Poirot happens to be on board this flight from Paris to London!
The murder takes place during the serving of lunch and the victim is discovered to be a notorious blackmailer travelling under an assumed name. There is a melodramatic discove More...

To say I was surprised would most likely be an understatement.

Agatha Christie continues to make webs out of detective stories that catch readers which they aren't able to climb out of.

These kinds of mysteries always keep me thinking - how? It's a closed space with a very limited number of possible killers and so many possible people to kill them, how is it even possible? And yet for maybe a dozenth time I'm proven horribly wrong.

I did not expect the turn out when they revealed the killer. Maybe More...

Depois de ter lido os fantásticos antecessores romances policiais de Agatha, como "Morte no Nilo" e "Crime no Expresso no Oriente", seria muito difícil que "Morte nas Nuvens" conseguisse superar o elevado nível de qualidade a que já estava habituado, como tal baixei as minhas expectativas para que não fosse surpreendido pela negativa...

Como tal, noto dois aspectos, Agatha Christie surpreende o leitor de todas as maneiras possíveis, com um enredo carismático e surpreendente até ao último momento More...

While traveling from Paris to London by plane, a murder was committed just minutes before landing. Mrs. Giselle, the victim, was found dead in her seat with a small wound on her neck caused by something extremely small. The killer could be one of the ten other passengers or the two stewards that were also on the plane with Mrs. Giselle. Detective M. Poirot, one of the passengers, teams up with Inspector Japp and M. Fournier to help try to solve the mystery.
In the beginning of the novel, it was More...

This is one of Agatha Christie's most enjoyable mysteries, with Poirot not only solving the murder but also enjoying success with his match making powers. It is during a flight from Paris to Croydon that a murder takes place - when moneylender and blackmailer Madame Giselle is found slumped in her seat, apparently killed by a poisoned blow dart. The whole thing seems incredible and Poirot sets out to discover who the culprit is, while protecting the innocent. There are some wonderful suspects he More...

Since 2008 I have been trying to make my way through all the Agatha Christie mysteries. After spending several years reading here and there I am now trying to read the missing ones in order. The next one on my list was DEATH IN THE CLOUDS.

DEATH IN THE CLOUDS sees the infamous Hercule Poirot spending a plane ride, with passengers unknown, and witnesses a murder. As he goes about using his "little grey cells" and collecting clues, he tries to figure out just who killed the poor woman.

For me, there More...

Whilst the uncomfortable flyer Hercule Poirot sleeps on the short flight from France to England, a rich Parisian money lender is murdered in the back seat of the carriage by a seemingly impossible method. At the ensuing inquest the jury suspect Poirot himself (about time! how many more crime scenes does he have to be at before tongues start to wag) yet the judge passes on their verdict and no one is bought to trial, so he sets out to clear his name and those of the other innocent passengers whil More...

If you have read any Agatha Christie, you know that at some point the famous "untraceable poison from the South American Indians" will pop up. This is something that a clueless character usually mentions in cases of unexplained deaths and which Poirot always derides. So when I realized that the death in this book involved an exotic poison and a blowpipe, I almost died laughing. Ms. Christie is so inventive that she's not afraid to create a plot out of an idea she's ridiculed non-stop in like 10 More...

Dalam sebuah pesawat terbang yang melambung tinggi di angkasa, seorang wanita ditemukan dalam kondisi telah tidak bernyawa. Siapakah pelakunya? Karena wanita tersebut meninggal pada saat pesawat sedang terbang, maka pembunuhnya dipastikan berada di dalam pesawat tersebut. Semua penumpang otomatis menjadi tersangka, termasuk detektif Hercule Poirot!

Tokoh Hercule Poirot ciptaan Agatha Christie seringkali dibanding-bandingkan dengan tokoh Sherlock Holmes yang diciptakan oleh Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. More...

I gave Agatha Christie's "Death in the Clouds" (also published as "Death in the Air") 4 stars because there's not a selection that allows for 3.5. It's one of her shorter mysteries and a quick read. It features her little Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who is one of my top 5 favorite fictional characters.

Christie gives a sort of "locked-room mystery" with this story. A murder occurs inside an airplane cabin while the craft is in flight. Our famous detective is on board as one of the passenge More...

Auf seinem Flug von Paris nach London-Croydon stirbt in der ersten Klasse die Geldverleiherin Madame Giselle alias Marie Morisot angeblich an einem Wespenstich. Leider konnte Poirot die Tat nicht beobachten, da er aufgrund seiner Flugangst ein Beruhigungsmittel eingenommen hatte. Poirot findet jedoch einen vergifteten Pfeil und kann sich wage daran erinnern, dass er in seinem Beruhigungsmittel umnebelten Traum jemand eine Flöte oder ein Blasrohr verwenden sah. Zum Glück ermittelt James Japp von More...

This is the first Agatha Cristie novel that I've ever read.

I actually guessed who the murderer was, but I could not find much evidence why he's the culprit. LOL. It was just a lucky guess. :P But unfortunately, making the correct (albeit wild) guess lessens the thrill of a mystery novel. :/

For me, Hercule Poirot was a little hard to know, to understand, and to relate to as a character. He was a bit too closed off for a mysterious detective.

I didn't really know what I was expecting when I read th More...

Yet another solid Christie novel -- with two excellent strong female characters, too, which is always pleasant. In addition, Poirot collaborates with his counterpart in Paris.


Quotes

They found a tea-shop and a disdainful waitress with a gloomy manner took their order with an air of doubt as of one who might say: “Don’t blame me if you’re disappointed. They say we serve teas here, but I never heard of it.” P49

“Murder,” said Normal Gale, “doesn’t concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects t More...

So I was pretty sure I figured out the murderer early on. And then I realized I had fallen into Dame Agatha's trap because I was completely wrong.

The murder takes place on a plane. We're given the seating arrangements of the passengers in the cabin in a nice diagram. However, unlike the seemingly similar Murder on the Orient Express, the passengers disembark and are questioned later. I preferred the train mystery more since part of it's charm was taking place entirely on a train. The plane ride More...

# 10
Title: Death in the Clouds
Author: Agatha Christie
Genre: Mystery

Challenges: Winter Reading Challenge 2009, TBR Challenge 2009 , A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 2009 Audiobook Challenge, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge 2009, Agatha Christie Challenge 2009, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: Audio Complete & Unabridged (5 CDs)- (333)

Published: Originally 1935 (Audio 2001)

From the back:
On an airplane bound for London from Paris, one of More...

Agatha created stories from all walk of life. She did stories during sea journey from London to Cape Town, by train from Baghdad to Paris and now, by airplane from Paris to Croydon. I was always mesmerize by her description of each mode of transportation during her stories timeline. The mystery in this novel, was as smart as the rest of her novel.

You can't help for being trapped by Agatha's tricky plot. You will think like the rest of the Scotland Yard, you will first suspected the wrong persons More...

Christie at her "funnest". This novel is about as lighthearted as a murder can be. Poirot seemed to as puzzled as I throughout most of the ordeal, and his thought process in this case was most entertaining. The wildness alone of the charade was enough to keep me reading until the end--airplanes, bees, and darts, oh my! Admittedly, the ultimate "solution" was a bit far-fetched for my liking and left me disappointed only in that it would be hard to imagine someone actually pulling it off unseen. T More...

I don't suggest reading an Agatha Christie book if you want to get a full nights sleep. Once you start one, it's difficult to stop. Although this is not the best of the Poirot novels, it is an ingenious little puzzle, well-characterised, amusing and definitely recommended.

While Hercules Peroit is on a flight accross the English channel, one of his fellow passengers is killed with a poison dart. I liked the book a lot and was impressed to see her branch out from her usual cyanide poison to Boomslang venom. I would recommend ths.

Pretty good Poirot. I can't remember if I read this before or not. I like it when Agatha gets all meta about things and makes one of the characters a mystery writer, so she can make wry jokes about the profession. You would think that as Poirot becomes more and more well-known as a detective, in this alternate universe Britain, murderers would become less likely to accept his climactic invitation to a dinner party, which is bound to end with a surprise denunciation of the killer, who is sitting More...