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'''Death in the Clouds''' (also published under the variant title '''Death in the Air''') was a murder mystery novel by [[Agatha Christie]] which was first published in [[1935]]. One of Christie's [[wikipedia:Hercule Poirot|Hercule Poirot]] novels, part of the novel's plot (involving a wasp) may gave been subconsciously influenced by an adventure she shared with [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]]. It is one of a number of Christie's works to be preserved through human history, with an edition owned by the Doctor carrying a publishing date of [[5,000,000,000|the year 5 Billion]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]''.
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'''''Death in the Clouds''''' was a murder mystery novel by [[Agatha Christie]] which was first published in [[1935]]. It was one of Christie's [[Hercule Poirot]] novels. Part of the novel's plot (involving a [[wasp]]) may have been subconsciously influenced by an adventure Christie shared with the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Donna Noble]]. It was one of a number of Christie's works to be preserved through [[human]] history, with an edition owned by the Doctor carrying a publishing date of [[5000000000|the year 5 billion]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}) The Doctor had kept ''Death in the Clouds'' within his [[C chest]] since as early as his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Carrionite Curse (audio story)}})


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== Behind the scenes ==
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In ''[[The Writer's Tale]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] recalls that he and scriptwriter [[Gareth Roberts]] were having trouble working out the monster Agatha Christie would face in ''The Unicorn and the Wasp'':
 
"We really couldn't think what sort of enemy she should fight. Dickens? Ghosts. Shakespeare? Witches. But Agatha...? Then Gareth came up with a wasp — and I remembered the old paperback cover of ''Death in the Clouds'', which has a plane being attacked by a symbolically giant wasp. 'That'll do', we said. Our most tenuous link yet."
 
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Death in the Clouds
Donna holds a paperback copy of Death in the Clouds. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Death in the Clouds was a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie which was first published in 1935. It was one of Christie's Hercule Poirot novels. Part of the novel's plot (involving a wasp) may have been subconsciously influenced by an adventure Christie shared with the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble. It was one of a number of Christie's works to be preserved through human history, with an edition owned by the Doctor carrying a publishing date of the year 5 billion. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"]) The Doctor had kept Death in the Clouds within his C chest since as early as his sixth incarnation. (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse [+]Loading...["The Carrionite Curse (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

In The Writer's Tale, Russell T Davies recalls that he and scriptwriter Gareth Roberts were having trouble working out the monster Agatha Christie would face in The Unicorn and the Wasp:

"We really couldn't think what sort of enemy she should fight. Dickens? Ghosts. Shakespeare? Witches. But Agatha...? Then Gareth came up with a wasp — and I remembered the old paperback cover of Death in the Clouds, which has a plane being attacked by a symbolically giant wasp. 'That'll do', we said. Our most tenuous link yet."