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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)}})
 
== Behind the scenes ==
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."


Exactly when the Doctor obtained his copy is unknown, though it may have been around the time of his visits to [[New Earth]] with either [[Rose Tyler]] ([[DW]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'') or [[Martha Jones]] ([[DW]]: ''[[Gridlock]]''), both of which took place sometime after the year 5 billion.
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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."