![]() As murder strikes Meadowbank, only Hercule Poirot can restore the peace. But someone knows, or suspects, that Jennifer has the jewels. Rawlinson is killed before he can reveal the hiding place-or even the fact that he has employed his niece as a smuggler. Rawlinson does so, hiding them among the possessions of his niece, Jennifer Sutcliffe, who is bound for Meadowbank. He asks his pilot and school friend, Bob Rawlinson, to care for a packet of jewels. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing experiment-‘hospitals, schools, a Health Service’-is coming to chaos, knows that he must prepare for the day of his exile. ![]() E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Cat Among the Pigeons 2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective.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. ![]()
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