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Death in the Clouds

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Death in the Clouds	label	Death in the Clouds
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Death in the Clouds	comment	Death in the Clouds is a detective fiction murder mystery by Agatha Christie first published in 1935, featuring Hercule Poirot.Poirot is flying from Paris back to England, and spends most of the flight sleeping. As the plane nears landing, fellow passenger Madame Giselle, a moneylender, is discovered to be dead. Although a wasp was found in the compartment shortly earlier, Poirot discovers a poisoned dart, and police find a blowpipe next to his seat. He finds himself counted among the suspects, and decides to investigate the case himself, promptly requesting a list of the passengers' possessions, and working with inspectors in both England and France. This results in revelations surrounding Giselle and the other passengers, involving debts, blackmail, a secret marriage and a previously unidentified estranged daughter.Death in the Clouds was adapted for the television series Poirot in 1992, starring David Suchet. Tropes concerning the adaptation can be found on the page for the series.
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Death in the Clouds / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Death in the Clouds / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: The murderer is a dentist, but carried out the murder dressed as an airline steward since their clothes look similar.
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Death in the Clouds / int_1300dc5c	type	Inspector Lestrade
Death in the Clouds / int_1300dc5c	comment	Inspector Lestrade: Inspector Japp, Poirot's dimwitted yet cheerful foil, makes another of his appearances in order to make Poirot look good.
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Death in the Clouds / int_1e68311c	type	"No. Justâ€¦ No" Reaction
Death in the Clouds / int_1e68311c	comment	"No. Just… No" Reaction: The coroner presiding over the murder inquest has the legal equivalent of this reaction when the jury brings in a charge against Poirot.
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Death in the Clouds / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
Death in the Clouds / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: The motive. Norman killed Madame Giselle and then, after he married her daughter, killed the daughter as well so he'd get all the money.
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Death in the Clouds / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Death in the Clouds / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Inspector Japp complains how detective story writers are "always making the police out to be fools." That of course is Japp's own role in Poirot novels.
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Death in the Clouds / int_4f10672d	type	Wrong Guy First
Death in the Clouds / int_4f10672d	comment	Wrong Guy First: Jane Grey spends most of the story unaware that her boyfriend is the murderer. Fortunately, Poirot finds a more suitable match for her in Jean Dupont.
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Death in the Clouds / int_5029a6a9	type	Blow Gun
Death in the Clouds / int_5029a6a9	comment	Blow Gun: A blowpipe is found next to Poirot's seat in the plane. It turns out to be a Red Herring intended to frame another passenger with whom Poirot had exchanged seats, as the poisoned dart was pressed into the victim by hand.
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Death in the Clouds / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Death in the Clouds / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: From the murderer's perspective, the fact that Poirot changed seats with intended scapegoat Countess Horbury during the flight. Similarly, the fact that Lady Horbury impulsively took her maid along in the plane rather than make her take the train.
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Death in the Clouds / int_655d406a	type	Instrument of Murder
Death in the Clouds / int_655d406a	comment	Instrument of Murder: One of the possible solutions suggested is that a flute had been used as a blowgun to launch the dart.
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Death in the Clouds / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Death in the Clouds / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Novelist Daniel Clancy, who loudly complains about how difficult it is to write good stories and how he hates some of his character's tics yet has to keep it because the public loves it.
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Death in the Clouds / int_6e23669f	type	Antagonistic Offspring
Death in the Clouds / int_6e23669f	comment	Antagonistic Offspring: Anne Morisot hates her mother, Madame Giselle, but looks forward to inheriting. She's more indifferent than outright hostile though, and somewhat justified due to being abandoned as a child.
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Death in the Clouds / int_721cf5db	type	Death in the Clouds
Death in the Clouds / int_721cf5db	comment	Death in the Clouds: The Trope Namer. Madame Giselle is murdered with a poisoned dart aboard a flight from Paris.
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Death in the Clouds / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Death in the Clouds / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: This trope plays out in classic style as the doctor examines Madame Giselle.
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Death in the Clouds / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Death in the Clouds / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The murderer has quite a dramatic one after being unmasked by Poirot.
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Death in the Clouds / int_9ccb5f39	type	Summation Gathering
Death in the Clouds / int_9ccb5f39	comment	Summation Gathering: "Listen, you shall come tonight to dine with me," and it's at that dinner that Poirot lays out the solution and fingers the bad guy in his classic style. Subverted in that he only invites two of the suspects.
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Death in the Clouds / int_9d352e21	type	Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat
Death in the Clouds / int_9d352e21	comment	Overly-Nervous Flop Sweat: "A little bead of perspiration came out on his forehead" as M. Perrot is confronted about his finagling to get Madame Giselle onto the later flight. A few sentences later, he's got "perspiration running down his forehead."
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Death in the Clouds / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Death in the Clouds / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Poirot, challenged when Japp says the passengers can't all be lying, says that in one case of his everyone was. That is one of Christie's most famous novels, Murder on the Orient Express.
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Death in the Clouds / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
Death in the Clouds / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Giselle was murdered by an air steward - who was actually Norman Gale in disguise.
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Death in the Clouds / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Death in the Clouds / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Jane Grey and Norman Gale meet at the casino and are immediately attracted to one another, although they spend more time afterwards getting to know each other.
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Death in the Clouds / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Death in the Clouds / int_b14ca7ba	comment	Two Aliases, One Character: Norman is Mr. Richards, the husband of Giselle's daughter.
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Death in the Clouds / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Death in the Clouds / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Daniel Clancy, who writes detective fiction, says that the Sherlock Holmes stories are overrated and filled with logical fallacies.
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Death in the Clouds / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Death in the Clouds / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Poirot finds himself labelled as a suspect, so this forms at least part of his motive for taking on the case.
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Death in the Clouds / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Death in the Clouds / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: During the Summation Gathering, Poirot traps the killer this way:
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Death in the Clouds / int_c8d9d7a0	type	Chatty Hairdresser
Death in the Clouds / int_c8d9d7a0	comment	Chatty Hairdresser: The story features a hairdresser who has to tell her clients about the murder, over and over again. At least she negotiates a pay rise for it, but eventually she snaps at a particularly bitchy customer and is fired.
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Death in the Clouds / int_d60bc4a0	type	Longing Look
Death in the Clouds / int_d60bc4a0	comment	Longing Look: Stephen and Venetia conclude that they can't get married because his awful wife won't give him a divorce and he couldn't see her name be ruined by the scandal of running away together. They part, then look back at each other, "and in that glance was all the feeling that their careful words had avoided."
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Death in the Clouds / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Death in the Clouds / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Several other items that share a similar form as a blowpipe (pipe stems, a flute, a cigarette holder) are mentioned, shortly before they figure out the thorn was inserted by hand. Poirot by his faux-casual questioning ferrets out that Jane was raised in an orphanage—but no, she's not Madame Giselle's long-lost daughter who is inheriting her fortune.
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Death in the Clouds / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Death in the Clouds / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The presiding judge of the inquest, who shoots down a bigoted attempt to accuse Poirot of the murder by the coroner's jury.
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Death in the Clouds / int_de19df2b	type	The Matchmaker
Death in the Clouds / int_de19df2b	comment	The Matchmaker: At the end of the story, Poirot sets up Jane Grey with archaeologist Jean Dupont.
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Death in the Clouds / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Death in the Clouds / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: The rear compartment of the plane only had 11 passengers at the time when Madame Giselle died.
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Death in the Clouds / int_ed371675	type	Til Murder Do Us Part
Death in the Clouds / int_ed371675	comment	Til Murder Do Us Part: The killer married and murdered Anne Morisot for her inheritance money.
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