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Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)

Agatha Christie

Start date: September 1, 2020

Finish date: September 30, 2020

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Jan 22, 2017 BrokenTune rated it liked it · review of another edition

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May 21, 2018 John Frankham rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-detective

A pretty good later Poirot, from 1959, starting as an adventure story of princes and revolutions in Arabia, then a murder mystery in an English girls' school- only later is Poirot called in to solve the murders and the mystery.

The GR blurb:

'When what looks like an amorous assignation turns out to be an assignation of quite a different sort, a globetrotting murderer leads Hercule Poirot on a breathless chase from a revolution-torn Arab sheikdom to a very respectable English school for young ladie ...more

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Sep 04, 2020 Jill rated it really liked it

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As usual I did enjoy the book, and Christie is so easy to read, but I was disappointed that Poirot did not show up until well over halfway through. I had my suspicions as to who the murderer was, but couldn't say I was completely satisfied with my thoughts. The characters throughout were interesting, and the setting in a girls school was different, albeit a very upper class establishment. ...more

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