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Death inthe Clouds 
 
To Ormond Beadle
Contents 
About Agatha Christie
The Agatha Christie Collection
Plan of Rear Car ‘Prometheus’
1 Paris to Croydon
2 Discovery
3 Croydon
4 The Inquest
5 After the Inquest
6 Consultation
7 Probabilities
8 The List
9 Elise Grandier
10 The Little Black Book
11 The American
12 At Horbury Chase
13 At Antoine’s
14 At Muswell Hill
15 In Bloomsbury
16 Plan of Campaign
17 In Wandsworth
18 In Queen Victoria Street
19 Enter and Exit Mr Robinson
20 In Harley Street
21 The Three Clues
22 Jane Takes a New Job
23 Anne Morisot
24 A Broken Finger-Nail
25 ‘I Am Afraid’
26 After Dinner Speech
Credits
Copyright
www.agathachristie.com
About the Publisher
Plan of Rear Car ‘Prometheus’
Passengers 
 Seat
 No. 2 Madame Giselle
 No. 4 James Ryder
 No. 5 Monsieur Armand Dupont
 No. 6 Monsieur Jean Dupont
 No. 8 Daniel Clancy
 No. 9 Hercule Poirot
 No. 10 Doctor Bryant
 No. 12 Norman Gale
 No. 13 The Countess of Horbury
 No. 16 Jane Grey
 No. 17 The Hon. Venetia Kerr
Chapter 1 
Paris to Croydon 
 The September sun beat down hotly on Le Bourget aerodrome as the passengers crossed the ground and climbed into the air liner Prometheus, due to depart for Croydon in a few minutes’ time.
Jane Grey was among the last to enter and take her seat, No. 16. Some of the passengers had already passed on through the centre door past the tiny pantry-kitchen and the two toilets to the front car. Most people were already seated. On the opposite side of the gangway there was a good deal of chatter—a rather shrill, high-pitched woman’s voice dominating it. Jane’s lips twisted slightly. She knew that particular type of voice so well.
‘My dear—it’s extraordinary—no idea—Where, do you say? Juan les Pins? Oh, yes. No—Le Pinet—Yes, just the same old crowd—But of course let’s sit together. Oh, can’t we? Who—? Oh, I see…’
And then a man’s voice—foreign, polite:
‘—With the greatest of pleasure, Madame.’
Jane stole a glance out of the corner of her eye.
A little elderly man with large moustaches and an egg-shaped head was politely moving himself and his belongings from the seat corresponding to Jane’s on the opposite side of the gangway.
Jane turned her head slightly and got a view of the two women whose unexpected meeting had occasioned this polite action on the stranger’s part. The mention of Le Pinet had stimulated her curiosity, for Jane also had been at Le Pinet.
She remembered one of the women perfectly—remembered how she had seen her last—at the baccarat table, her littl ............

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