Death in the Clouds audiobook

DEATH BY BLOW DART!A crusty old moneylender known for keeping blackmail on all of her high profile and aristocratic clients gets taken out by a snake poison while traveling through the air.I choose to believe this means Death in the Clouds was the original inspiration for Snakes on a Plane.I like locked-room mysteries, so I absolutely appreciated the use of murder on a plane to spice up that trope. And I also love the snake poison dart as the weapon of choice.Keepin it wacky, Agatha! Now because Poirot is on the plane, he becomes a suspect in the court of public opinion and takes on the case to defend his good name. And of course, he solves it.This may not be the most well-known Poirot mystery, but it has an interesting setting, a good cast of characters, and a lot of twisty shenanigans to keep you interested. Recommended.

Hercule Poirot at his best. A gripping who dun it high in the air drama. The only case where Jury actually convicts Poirot of murder before their opinion is not upheld.For a change we see Poirot moving around looking for clues rather than solving the case from the comforts of his chair. Interesting

loved it. How he never let the killer suspect the game was known till the end.

Ahora que he estado leyendo tan seguido los libros de Agatha y además en orden me he dado cuenta de que es notable el estado de animo que posiblemente tenía la escritora cuando escribía sus libros, mientras en algunos el ambiente es jocoso, divertido o ligero, en otros es serio y formal o como en este caso incluso algo opresivo, había leído libros de ella antes de empezar con este reto de Agatha, pero ni los había leído en orden y ni los había leído todos, claro me faltaban un montón, pero me ha encantado darme cuenta de estos cambios en la ambiente de sus historias.Este libro es una chulada, veamos, el asesinato, es super ingenioso, no solo donde se perpetra si no el como y el con qué, no puedo, por mucho que lo intenté imaginarme a esta mujer ideando estas cosas, debía ser un proceso fascinante verla concibiendo sus asesinatos, ya sabemos que la señora era la reina de los venenos, así que aunque muy interesante no me sorprende, lo que si que sorprende es como hace llegar dichos venenos a sus víctimas, luego pasas por darte cuenta que le da sus giros para que resulte todavía más intrincado e ingenioso dicho asesinato.Luego tenemos que por primera vez nuestro buen Hércules Poirot es sospechoso de dicho asesinato, lo cual es grandioso y además divertido de ver.Y para terminar tenemos al asesino, mi buena Agatha ¡me ha engañado otra vez!, que nunca, ni siquiera por casualidad sospeché de quien terminó siendo, así que, también he terminado el libro con ganas de dar un aplauso de pie a la ingeniosidad, inteligencia y mordacidad que tenía esta mujer.Como he dicho en este libro el ambiente es diferente a como lo he sentido en otros, no sé, incluso leyéndolo llegue a pensar que tal vez nuestra buena Agatha estuviera pasando por momentos no muy felices en su vida mientras lo escribía, no hay por ningún lado ese sentido de humor que se ve en otras entregas e incluso nuestro buen Poirot está mucho más serio que de costumbre.Este libro junto con el Asesinato de Roger Ackroyd, Diez negritos y cinco cerditos esta en el top de mis favoritos de está escritora.

4 Stars. Having read this years ago, I remembered the whodunit. Sort-of. I was not certain until near the end but it left me able to pounce on clues I surely missed the first time. A whole set of them can be found! "Clouds" is a good one but very complicated. It even has a Canadian connection! The book is from 1935 when flying between Paris and London was relatively new and exciting. Perceived as expensive and only for the rich. Hercule Poirot is on the airliner Prometheus which departs Le Bourget north of Paris bound for Croydon Airport south of London. Back then airplanes had names like ocean liners. The plane had two cabins and was likely a two-engine prop. Something extraordinary happens, but our private detective missed it all. He was asleep (are you suspicious?, I was) in seat #9 when the passenger in seat #2 behind him and to the right was poisoned by a dart thought to be shot from a blow-pipe. It was later revealed that the toxin was from a Boomslang snake from South Africa. Wild. It turns out that Madame Giselle was a money lender to the rich and famous - those desperate for privacy with secrets to hide. It was a hit. (April 2022)

A fine mystery featuring Hercule Poirot and a confounding murder on a plane in plain sight of the passengers including Poirot. But more importantly, just know that this Kindle Unlimited edition has a fair number of irritating transposed passages & word usage errors (see my Kindle Notes for some examples). Choose another edition and save yourself the bother.

Agatha Christie never disappoints.

An absolutely delightful "whodunnit"! I had forgotten how much I enjoy Agatha Christie! She was the first author I read after I started to move away from horse books. I remember having been to the mall and bought some Miss Marple Mysteries, one of the classmates I hung out with mentioned "oh, so somebody actually reads this stuff?" Right. Agatha Christie being outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare! No, J.K Rowling isn't quite in this distinguished league yet, but I expect she will be.In this particular book, a murder takes place on a plane journey, in the same compartment which the distinguished Monsiuer Poirot also travels. There is a wasp in the compartment and it is evident that this should have been seen as the cause of the money lender Giselle's demise. There is also a blow pipe and a thorn which dispensed the snake venom; so this is a very juicy case for the press. Monsieur Poirot must put all his little grey cell's to work to solve the riddle.In typical Agatha Christie style, I suspected absolutely everyone - except the culprit. I don't know how she manages this every time. I hear about the people so deft at her writing style they always know who the murderer is, but I am certainly not in this category. In more modern mysteries I can sometimes suss out the murderer by half-way through, but never Agatha Christie. She has an admirable sleight of hand. I should definitely put the rest of the works I haven't read by her on my reading list. I've read 15-20 books by her or so, but some when I was so young I hardly remember. What I do remember though, is how reliable she is. You always know what you get with Agatha Christie - something to tickle your little grey cells"