Book description
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a
commercial passeneger plane…
From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his
fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman,
clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a
Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in
seat No. 8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.
What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat
the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. “It will be a very acute reader
who does not receive a complete surprise at the end.”
Times Literary Supplement Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890
and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her
first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of
the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become
the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She
is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold
over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in
over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and
short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary
Westmacott.
