A woman is killed by a
poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passeneger
plane…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.