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Poirot weaves his marvellous magic, travelling to and from between France and England to dig out clues, discard red-herrings and ultimately unmask the murderer. As I said an excellent story that kept me enthralled, not just entertained, for 2 nights, hmm so why am I not giving it 5 stars. I will have to ponder that one The book was serialised in the US in The Saturday Evening Post in six instalments from 9 February (Volume 207, Number 32) to 16 March 1935 (Volume 207, Number 37) under the title Death in the Air with illustrations by Frederic Mizen. More than 42 years later, the same magazine republished the story, in 4 parts, in their Oct, Nov 1977 and Mar, Apr 1978 issues. [1] And here we are almost a week later and I've rounded up my marking as the more I think about it, the more I am convinced this is over 4 .5 and therefore rounded up to 5.

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In the book, Poirot is a passenger on board a flight from Paris to Croydon Airport. Some time before landing, one of the passengers, Madame Giselle — a wealthy French moneylender — 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 blowgun. It becomes apparent that the victim has been murdered. Madame Giselle (or Marie Morisot)'s name is slightly changed to Marie Giselle, and Anne Morisot was renamed Anne Giselle. The airline clerk's name is not given in the episode, although the one in the original novel had the name "Jules Perrot". In the UK, the novel was serialised as an abridged version in the weekly Woman's Pictorial magazine in six instalments from 16 February (Volume 29, Number 736) to 23 March 1935 (Volume 29, Number 741) under the title Mystery in the Air. There were no chapter divisions and all of the instalments carried illustrations by Clive Uptton.

Chapter 13: "Imagine, in a little hotel in Syria was an Englishman whose wife had been taken ill. He himself had to be somewhere in Iraq by a certain date. Eh bien, would you believe it, he left his wife and went on so as to be on duty in time? And both he and his wife thought that quite natural; they thought him noble, unselfish. But the doctor, who was not English, thought him a barbarian.". Similar story happened to Christie herself soon after her second marriage and is described in her autobiography The youngest of three children of the Miller family. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha. Théâtre des Champs-Élysées - externals and some interior shots of the hotel of Horburys, Venetia Kerr, Poirot. At various places there is a logo comprising a letter H over a C and E, possibly denoting "Hôtel Champs-Élysées". The February 2022 selection for the Appointment with Agatha reading group. Yet another Hercule Poirot mystery. I think I may be quite tired of the little Belgian by the end of this reading program.Poirot is assisted by Japp throughout the investigation; he comes with him to investigate the case in France. Inspector Fournier is given a lesser role as a result. On a flight we have Poirot on the scene when a woman is found dead before the end of the flight. At first it appears that a wasp has stung her, but looking closer it appears someone has killed her with a dart. With a plane of suspects it takes all of Poirot's little gray cells to figure out how do the killer do this and why. Lady Horbari's husband, Stephen, is worried that she borrowed money from Madame Moriso. He is clearly not indifferent to the girlfriend of his wife Venetia, in love with him.

Steps from esplanade du Trocadero down to the jardins du Trocadero - Poirot and Jane Grey walk down these steps. Because you are deducing from things that you have seen. Nothing can be so misleading as observation.”And that blowpipe scene? Suchet should've won awards for it. Side-splitting. I watched this episode with my Young Gentleman Caller and he made me pause the scene twice so he could get the laughs out. It is 1935 and Hercule Poirot's horror of flying is compounded when a fellow passenger on a cross-channel aeroplane is found murdered. Poirot wants to find Annie, but finds out that she is dead. She was found in a train with a prussic acid bubble in her hand.