Cat Among the Pigeons (Poirot) Paperback

A murder inside an English girls' boarding school sets this Poirot novel apart from Christie's country-house cases. Meadowbank is a school with a reputation to protect, and when violence arrives on its grounds the staff, the pupils and their well-connected families all become part of the problem. Christie ties the school plot to events far outside it, and Poirot enters the investigation later than usual, which gives the opening chapters room to work as straight suspense before the detective takes over. The Harper Collins paperback edition runs 320 pages. A closer look: • A Poirot title set in a boarding school rather than a manor house • 320 pages in a standard Harper Collins paperback • Political intrigue running alongside the domestic investigation • A late entrance for the detective that shifts the book's rhythm Recommended for crime readers working through the Poirot novels in order, published by Harper Collins and available at Boipoka.