Death in the Clouds

This was my first Agatha Christie book, and I loved it! It reminded me a little of how I love to read John Le Carré’s older material, because both he and Agatha Christie were prolific, long-lived writers with careers that spanned decades, and you get authentic historical fiction, that was written contemperaneously.

This book was published in 1935, and the terms for air travel, the conventions of the stewards, everything is all so different. Little things like the windows on the airplane being openable! Madness!

I also keep alternately picturing David Suchet and Kenneth Branagh, which is honestly kind of fun.

So glad I picked this up and enjoyed it, I feel like I’ve hit the motherlode of backlogs!