Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) (Hercule Poirot Mysteries (Audio))

About the Author Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a British crime writer best known for her detective novels and short stories. According to Guinness World Records, she is the best-selling novelist of all time, her novels having sold over four billion copies and having been translated into more than one hundred languages. The Agatha Award for best mystery and crime writers was named in her honor. Product Description [Read by Hugh Fraser]A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, hereditary sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing experimenthospitals, schools, a Health Serviceis coming to chaos, knows that he must prepare for the day of his exile. He asks his pilot and school friend, Bob Rawlinson, to care for a packet of jewels. Rawlinson does so, hiding them among the possessions of his niece, Jennifer Sutcliffe, who is bound for Meadowbank. Rawlinson is killed before he can reveal the hiding placeor even the fact that he has employed his niece as a smuggler. But someone knows, or suspects, that Jennifer has the jewels. As murder strikes Meadowbank, only Hercule Poirot can restore the peace.