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melissa_who_reads 's review for:
Cat Among the Pigeons
by Agatha Christie
Listened to the audiobook with the great Hugh Frazier, who has exactly the right voice for Agatha Christie - even a story set in a girls school in which Capt. Hastings does not appear.
Hercule Poirot makes his entrance fairly late in this one, brought in after two deaths and a kidnapping. And he wraps it up fairly quickly.
The story starts in Ramat, a vague Mid-Eastern country having a revolution. The prince entrusts a cache of jewels to his best friend, an English pilot, who must arrange for them to get out of the country before attempting to get the prince out. He turns to his sister, in Ramat visiting with her daughter, but when he visits her hotel, she is not there - but he spends a fairly bit of time in her room anyway. He hides the stones in his niece's tennis racket handle, and is seen doing so -
The tennis racket and niece end up at Meadowbanks, a girls school, on their return from Ramat. The prince and pilot are both dead, and many different groups of people are eager to get their hands on the jewels: but where are they? First one schoolmistress then another ends up dead -- three by the end of the book.
Very fun to listen to in bad traffic on the way home. Nothing too tense, and an interesting plot to keep one's mind off the traffic.
Hercule Poirot makes his entrance fairly late in this one, brought in after two deaths and a kidnapping. And he wraps it up fairly quickly.
The story starts in Ramat, a vague Mid-Eastern country having a revolution. The prince entrusts a cache of jewels to his best friend, an English pilot, who must arrange for them to get out of the country before attempting to get the prince out. He turns to his sister, in Ramat visiting with her daughter, but when he visits her hotel, she is not there - but he spends a fairly bit of time in her room anyway. He hides the stones in his niece's tennis racket handle, and is seen doing so -
The tennis racket and niece end up at Meadowbanks, a girls school, on their return from Ramat. The prince and pilot are both dead, and many different groups of people are eager to get their hands on the jewels: but where are they? First one schoolmistress then another ends up dead -- three by the end of the book.
Very fun to listen to in bad traffic on the way home. Nothing too tense, and an interesting plot to keep one's mind off the traffic.