Desde el asiento nmero nueve, Poirot est idealmente ubicado para observar a los dems pasajeros del avin. A su derecha se sienta una mujer joven, claramente enamorada del hombre de enfrente. Ms adelante, en la butaca nmero trece, se encuentra una condesa con una pasin por la cocana mal disimulada. Al otro lado del pasillo, en el asiento ocho, una abeja agresiva molesta a un escritor de novelas de detectives. Sin embargo, Poirot no se da cuenta de que, detrs suyo, en la segunda butaca, se halla el cuerpo sin vida de una mujer.
Ser un lector muy agudo el que no se sorprenda al final. The Times Literary Supplement
Muy pocos autores logran la combinacin ideal de rompecabezas y entretenimientocomo lo hace Agatha Christie. The Guardian
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he's traveling on is quite unexpectedly--and unnaturally--deceased.
From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers on the short flight from Paris to London. 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 writer of detective fiction was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.
Yes, Poirot is almost ideally placed to take it all in, except what he did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No. 2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman. Murdered, and likely by someone in Poirot's immediate proximity.