Death in the Clouds A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie Death in the Clouds A Hercule Poirot Mystery Agatha Christie New York: Berkley Books ISBN 9780425169216 Copyright June 1984 230 pages The binding is tight, the pages are clean, one page is corner creased and the inside of the cover is very foxed. The cover is lightly scuffed. Acceptable. Paperback. On a routine flight over the English Channel, a woman is murdered with the venom-dipped dart of a South African blow-gun. How bizarre that the killing should go unnoticed by the plane's other passengers. Most ironic of all, though, is that Hercule Poirot, the brilliant detective, was sitting just 15 feet from the victim! Also published as Death in the Air.