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.
Dust-jacket illustration of the US edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image.
Dustjacket illustration of the UK first edition
Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays, and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
A statuette of Poirot in Ellezelles, Belgium
Albert Finney as Poirot in the 1974 film, Murder on the Orient Express
Peter Ustinov as Poirot in a 1982 adaptation of the novel Evil Under the Sun
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