title: Death in the Clouds (Collins English Readers)
author: Agatha Christie
description: "[A] crime puzzle of the first order."--New York Times<br /><br />"It will be a very acute reader who does not receive a complete surprise at the end."--Times Literary Supplement (London)<br /><br />"There has never been, and probably never will be, a P.I. more fun to observe and listen to than Hercule Poirot."--Joseph Wambaugh, "New York Times" bestselling author<br /><br />"As a crime writer I quickly realized that I'd already learned a great deal from Agatha Christie, and even after four decades in the game, I feel I'm still learning."--Reginald Hill, author of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries
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  ## Agatha Christie
  
  
  ## Sad Cypress
  
  
  A Hercule Poirot Mystery
  
  
  ![image](../images/00001.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [Dedication](part0003.html#dedication_page)
  
  
  To Peter and Peggy McLeod
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epigraph](part0003.html#epigraph_page)
  
  
  Come away, come away, death,
  
  
  And in sad cypress let me be laid;
  
  
  Fly away, fly away, breath!
  
  
  I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
  
  
  My shroud of white, stuck all with yew
  
  
  O prepare it;
  
  
  My part of death no one so true;
  
  
  Did share it.
  
  
  Shakespeare
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Cover](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#titlepage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dedication](part0001.html#dedicationpage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epigraph](part0002.html#epigraphpage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](part0004.html#prologuepage)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part I](part0005.html#part01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0006.html#chapter01)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0007.html#chapter02)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0008.html#chapter03)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part000