Death in the Clouds

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mystery Affair of Styles, was written towards the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published by The Bodley Head in 1920.In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be published by Collins and marked the beginning of an author-publisher relationship which lasted for 50 years and well over 70 books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also the first of Agatha Christie's books to be dramatised - under the name Alibi - and to have a successful run in London's West End. The Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, opened in 1952 and is the longest-running play in history.Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. She died in 1976, since when a number of books have been published posthumously: the bestselling novel Sleeping Murder appeared later that year, followed by her autobiography and the short story collection Miss Marple's Final Cases, Problem at Pollensa Bay and While the Light Lasts. In 1998 Black Coffee was the first of her plays to be novelised by another author, Charles Osborne.(from the first pages of Agatha Christie's paperbacks published by HarperCollins)

出版者:Harper Collins

作者:[英] 阿加莎·克里斯蒂

页数:333

出版时间:2001

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:paperback

isbn号码:9780007119332

丛书系列:Agatha Christie- HarperCollins 2003

图书标签:AgathaChristie阿加莎·克里斯蒂推理英文原版英文推理小说悬疑小说

From Seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.

What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman...

'It will be a very acute reader who does not receive a complete surprise at the end.'

--Times Literary Supplement

读后感

这本书其实是我十一月读的书，因为最近考试实在是太密集了，没有时间完整地看一些新书，所以还是决定把这本书拿出来写一写。知道这本书，是因为我的文学理论老师在讲侦探小说的时候讲到了这本书和《尼罗河上的惨案》，而我又是一个阿加莎·克里斯蒂的小迷妹，所以决定买来读一...  

也许是翻译问题？!! 第一，没有福尔摩斯那种读来扣人心弦，屏声息气的感觉。 第二，外文名的翻译简直令人头晕目眩。 对于结局中的凶手是谁倒是没有特别出乎意料的感觉 从书的开头就对这个对故事情节没有特别的推动作用作者却花了较多的笔墨来描述的看似善良纯情的牙医产生了怀...  

也许是翻译问题？!! 第一，没有福尔摩斯那种读来扣人心弦，屏声息气的感觉。 第二，外文名的翻译简直令人头晕目眩。 对于结局中的凶手是谁倒是没有特别出乎意料的感觉 从书的开头就对这个对故事情节没有特别的推动作用作者却花了较多的笔墨来描述的看似善良纯情的牙医产生了怀...  

用户评价

能猜到杀手，猜不到手法。yes, we tend to ignore people in uniform...and this is not a spoiler, i promise.

Quite nice. Guessed how but didn't guess who. Anyhow there is a major plot flaw. Why the murderer dropped the thorn on the floor and wanted to retrieve it later, if the thorn was indeed injected by hand? Why not take the thorn away with him after he stabbed the victim? Voila.

MR Poirot is so kind and humorous.Jean Grey is a very charming character.Everyone ends with the happiness except the murderer.If you suffer a wrong marriage or meet the Mr wrong ，just to be brave and step out.Everything will be ok.That is what I learn from Jean and Cicely.

不是很难读懂，不过我不知道究竟是我词汇量进步了？还是真的这本书比较容易读？

比之前看的两部要牵强些。