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Cat Among the Pigeons
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Hercule Poirot: Book 31

Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) (edit title/settings)

by Agatha Christie (Author) (edit contributors)

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Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion. There they find the body of the unpopular games mistress - shot through the heart. Chaos reigns as "the cat" strikes again, and one schoolgirl knows that without Poirot's help, she will be next.

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When the revolution begins in Ramat, a small Arab country, the prince and his pilot attempt to flee in vain, but before dying the prince has given his pilot some gems which he must hide because he doesn't want them falling in the wrong hands. He hides them in the handle of his niece's tennis... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

When the revolution begins in Ramat, a small Arab country, the prince and his pilot attempt to flee in vain, but before dying the prince has given his pilot some gems which he must hide because he doesn't want them falling in the wrong hands. He hides them in the handle of his niece's tennis raquet, before attempting to fly the prince out of the country where he dies. The niece goes school taking the tennis raquet with her where attempts are made to steal it by the seemingly innocent secretary of the headmistress. It emerges that the secretary is actually a secret undercover agent who has seen the pilot hide the gems in his niece's raquet. A mind gripping novel. Well written...

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  • “Everybody always knows something, even if it's something they don't know they know.”
    Adam Goodman
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  • You can’t hold on to the past. A certain amount of tradition is good but never too much. A school is for the children of today. It’s not for the children of fifty years ago or even of thirty years ago. There are some schools in which tradition is more important than others, but Meadowbank is not one of
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ABOUT two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain events had taken place which were to have unexpected repercussions in that celebrated girls' school.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Prologue Summer Term

1 Revolution in Ramat
2 The Woman on the Balcony
3 Introducing Mr Robinson
4 Return of a Traveller
5 Letters from Meadowbank School
6 Early Days
7 Straws in the Wind
8 Murder
9 Cat Among the Pigeons
10 Fantastic Story
11 Conference
12 New Lamps for Old
13 Catastrophe
14 Miss Chadwick Lies Awake
15 Murder Repeats Itself
16 The Riddle of the Sports Pavilion
17 Aladdin's Cave
18 Consultation
19 Consultation Continued
20 Conversation
21 Gathering Threads
22 Incident in Anatolia
23 Showdown
24 Poirot Explains
25 Legacy

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 31 of 39 in Hercule Poirot. (standard series)

Preceded by Dead Man's Folly, and followed by The Clocks.

This is book 7 of 74 in Agatha Christie - Luitingh-Sijthoff pockets. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by The Moving Finger, and followed by The Clocks.

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  1. Agatha Christie (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Collins
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1959
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 256

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