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Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
3.0

4/24 Well at least it's been seven years since I read/watched this, because I didn't remember much. For some reason I was thinking that I hadn't liked this one very much, but I did enjoy the Hugh Fraser audiobook, and I see that I did rather like it.

Typically entertaining, with more than one little twist. Poirot doesn't come in until very late, he seemed sort of forced in as an afterthought, this story could have easily been a stand-alone and done without him.

(just watched the TV version on Netflix. Mark Gatiss wrote the teleplay and he overcomes the problem of the missing Hercule by making him an old friend of the school headmistress and there to present a trophy. She asks him to stay on to observe the other teachers and help her choose her successor should she decide to retire. A bit flimsy, but something had to be done to get him there sooner)