Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959. ‘Hope nobody here had nothing to hide,’ said Miss Springer, the new Game Mistress at Meadowbank to her colleagues at the beginning of the summer term. Days later the school matron and the Deputy Head found her dead from a single bullet at the girls’ school Sports Pavilion. Unpopular she might have seemed among the staff and the pupils, her murder was a shock. Then the second murder occurred on the same premises. Clearly, there was something in the new building the murderer had been looking for. Julia Upjohn, one of the pupils, worked out what it was. Nonetheless, instead of going to the police she went to Hercule Poirot for help; his being a friend of her mother’s friend. Unbeknown to Julia, Mrs Upjohn happened to recognise a killer when she took her daughter at the start of the term. In the meantime, a pupil vanished hours before the second killing. The niece of Emir Ibrahim – a ruler in a small rich country in the Middle East- was picked up by a chauffeur-driven limousine at school for a weekend with her uncle but never returned. Enjoy free online English audiobook “Cat Among the Pigeons”, a breathtaking novel by Agatha Christie.
