Hercule Poirot have to solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Loss of life in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in chair two from the airborne aeroplane he’s vacationing on is fairly unexpectedly-and unnaturally-deceased.

From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to see his fellow air flow passengers in the short flight from Paris to London. To his right sat a fairly young woman, obviously infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No. 13, sat a countess having a badly hidden cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No. 8, a author of detective fiction had been stressed by an intense wasp.

Yes, Poirot is nearly ideally placed to consider it all in, except what he didn’t yet realize was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a female. Murdered, and most likely by someone in Poirot’s immediate proximity.