Death in the Clouds
- 254
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- TV film 1992
- On screen
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Our view
“Death in the Clouds” is a neat closed-circle Poirot: a passenger dies in mid-flight and the killer has to be someone on board. Poirot is on the case from the first pages, Japp gets more room than usual, and the interplay among the suspects carries the plot. Some readers find it dry, closer to an exercise than a story, and some think the romance shallow.
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About the book
Death in the Clouds is a mystery novel 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.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
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On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- TV filmDeath in the CloudsIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 228 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 17 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 211 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Death in the Clouds?
It has 254 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Classics.
In this book
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