Death in the Clouds.

CHRISTIE, [Dame] Agatha (1890-1976).

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1935. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.252; [4], advertisements. Publisher's orange cloth, lettered to spine in black. Some spotting and reading marks within, endpapers tanned, covers are dusty and rubbed, backstrip toned. With a complimentary facsimile wrapper supplied by a previous owner. Hercule Poirot is a passenger on board a flight from Paris to Croydon. Some time before landing, one of the passengers, a moneylender named Madame Giselle, is found dead. Initially, a reaction to a wasp sting is postulated, but Poirot spies the true cause of death: a poison-tipped dart, apparently fired from a blowpipe. It becomes apparent that the victim has been murdered. Item #76102

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