num_pages: 230
description: Blackmailer and moneylender ugly old Parisian Mme Giselle dies instantly from a prick in the neck by rare South American boomslang snake venom, while Belgian detective Hercule Poirot rests his eyes, and someone hides the blowgun beneath his aeroplane seat. One clue lies in the contents of ten passenger pockets and bags, but the faithful maid has burned client records. Death in the Air - U.S. publishers changed titles until fan letters flooded author.
language: English
title: Death in the Clouds
titlecomplete: Death in the Clouds (Hercule Poirot, #12)
characters: Henry Mitchell (Death in the Clouds), M. Gilles, James Whistler and Henry Witherspoon, Venetia Kerr, Daniel Clancy, Anne Morisot, Zeropoulos, Madame Giselle, Andrew Leech, James Ryder, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Georges (Death in the Clouds), Raymond Barraclough, Jean Dupont, Doctor Bryant, Countess of Horbury, Jules Perrot, Marie Morisot, John Robinson (Death in the Clouds), Jane Grey (Death in the Clouds), Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn (death in the Clouds), Monsieur Fournier, The Weekly Howl reporter, Hercule Poirot, Albert Davis, Watson (Death in the Clouds), Norman Gale, The coroner (Death in the Clouds), Detective Giraud, Mere Angelique, Madeleine (Death in the Clouds), Monsieur Armand Dupont, The American (Death in the Clouds), Wilbraham Rice, Elise Grandier, Maître Alexandre Thibault
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 50969
places: Paris, Croydon, England, London, England
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Berkley