Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery

novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie, I am Kemper Donovan.

I'm Catherine Brobeck.

And this week we are indeed reading and drinking a novel, that novel, is Death in the Clouds, an Erkipuaro novel.

And let's just get right into it because we have a lot to discuss.

This is a robust mystery to say the least.

And to say the least.

And talk about the publication history.

Interestingly this was called Death in the Air.

I don't know if you know Kemper why the title changed but this is yet another case

of it being published first in the US on March 10th of

1935 and under a different title because when it was published in July in the UK

it was called Death in the Clouds. Let's just get right to our victim who is Madame Gisele, an older

French lady who is apparently quite hideous poor Madame Gisele due to a smallpox disfigurement from earlier on in her life and she has been

poisoned by well we're not exactly sure it could be a wasp it could be an Amazonian

blow dart but it happened on a plane from Paris to Croydon and

She also happens to be a very famous Parisian money lender slash blackmailer

The suspects are many very numerous because

it's everyone on the airplane. I mean let's give a shout out to Ag of the

Christie for having a fun closed setting here in that it's an airplane and as you know an airplane

in 1935 was kind of new so this is still a fun setup and I'm sure it was super fun in 1935.

Our people here playing then, we have James Ryder

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