Death in the Clouds

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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is a great book, it has a clever ending, and I never guessed who the murderer was. This is one of Christie's great works, and it'll keep you entertained. I recommend this book for people who love her books!

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Summary: POIROT RULES
Review: This is amazing work by Christie. The first chapter just takes off and it never slows down until the classic Poirot conclusion.

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Summary: A thrilling Suspense novel
Review: This was my 1st book of Agatha Christie, so naturally I was stumped, concerning who the murderer was. At 1st I was not at all inclined to read it. But after the murder, I was almost jumping out of my chair in order to find out who the murderer was.It was really a brilliant novel. Hercule Poirot has surpassed himself. Once you start, yu can't put it down. And I can assure you that u'll never guess the murderer!

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Summary: A puzzling mystery
Review: This was my first Agatha Christie novel and I had heard a lot about her and I decided to try out one of her books. It gave me a bit of each of the character's thoughts in the beginning. Once Madame Giselle was murdered the book was very interesting. Thoughout the book Christie gave me clues of the culprit and most of the time I did not know who the clues were pointed to. I was stumped to the end. It will be a good book for mystery fans!

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Summary: My first Christie
Review: This was my very first Agatha Christie book, so naturally, I was interested to know how she writes. It had a slow start, but once a women was found dead the story begins to unfold. It's interesting to read about the curious detective, Hercule Poirot, and his views on the case, which are extremly different from those of the police. His method of finding the killer is exactly opposite of what Inspecter Japp thinks: All people on the plane are guilty until proven inocent. Aided by his friends Jane Grey, the hairdresser, and Norman Gale, the dentist, and a colorful cast of characters, this book is definitly a must for mystery lovers!

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Summary: Underrated 30's Treasure
Review: We grew up in America thinking of this novel as DEATH IN THE AIR, it's nice that the various US publishers are now reprinting Christie's novels with the titles she wanted them to have. I wonder why they thought "in the air" was better than "in the clouds" anyway? One of those long-ago decisions that will always remain something of a mystery.

Poirot is especially bright in this novel. Until picking it up again at the New Year, I hadn't thought of this book in many years and definitely it came as a surprise to me how interesting it was, on many levels. Christie's skills at characterization again come into play. She gets you involved with everyone, even the initially unsympathetic and crass Countess of Horbury turns out to have a human, appealing side, while the gentle country romance of her husband with the horsey gentlewoman the Hon Venetia Kerr is handled robustly and plainly, like Trollope might have. For comic effect we have Mr. Clancy, who writes a series of detective novels with a detective who bites his nails in every book; even though Clancy admits it's a disgusting habit, he feels bound to put in a scene of nail biting in every novel, otherwise the fans will complain. Wonder if Ed McBain ever feels that way, with Steve Carella and his "Asiatic eyes"?

My favorite character is the heroine, the beauty parlor manicurist Jane Grey. You don't have to be an expert to know that Christie had a passion for gray eyes, and a number of her pert, "modern girl" heroines have gray eyes. She liked the name "Jane," too, even if it denoted someone plain in her day. Jane Gray is remarkable appealing and fun. The guff she puts up with from her upperclass customers is appalling but she takes it all in the right Bridget Jones spirit, and she and her fellow workers have fun laughing at the customer's affectations. Her passion for her new dentist boyfriend is very real and very well sketched, but it is her relationship with Poirot that makes the novel worth reading. By the end you might almost imagine an unwritten sequel in which Jane Grey and Hercule Poirot move together romantically closer. She's adorable.

There's one crumby anti-Semitic slur uttered by Gladys, Jane's friend, that kind of spoils it for modern readers. Today we don't need to read about "Iky Andrew," thank you.

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Summary: it keeps you up till you finish!
Review: well,..this one is absolutely magnificient...with the murder situation up in the clouds...what could you expect?...a little magic...? no...the answer is brilliant mind with methodically thinking to solve the mystery.....it is Hercule Poirot again!...i bet you won't regret...unless you don't have that kind of thrill....