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Cat Among the Pigeons audiobook

  • By: Agatha Christie
  • Narrator: Hugh Fraser
  • Category: Crime, Fiction
  • Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: July 03, 2012
  • Language: English
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Cat Among the Pigeons Audiobook Summary

Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice.

Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress–shot through the heart point-blank.

The school is thrown into chaos when the “cat” strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirot’s help, she will be the next victim….

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Hugh Fraser is the narrator of Cat Among the Pigeons audiobook that was written by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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Cat Among the Pigeons Full Details

Narrator Hugh Fraser
Length 6 hours 45 minutes
Author Agatha Christie
Category
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date July 03, 2012
ISBN 9780062229595

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The publisher of the Cat Among the Pigeons is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Crime, Fiction

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The publisher of the Cat Among the Pigeons is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062229595.

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Goodreads Reviews

Bel

September 05, 2021

velha desgraçada.

Ahmad

April 01, 2022

Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot #34), Agatha Christie Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published on 2 November 1959. It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. A revolution takes place within Ramat, a fictional kingdom in the Middle East. Before their deaths, Prince Ali Yusuf entrusts his pilot, Bob Rawlinson, to smuggle a fortune in jewels out of the country. These are concealed in the luggage of his sister, Joan Sutcliffe, and her daughter Jennifer. Unbeknown to him, a mysterious woman watches him conceal them from the balcony of a neighboring room. Three months later, Jennifer prepares to attend Meadowbank School, a prestigious girls' prep school in England. Its staff includes Miss Bulstrode, the school's founder and headmistress; Bulstrode is nearing retirement, so she decides to seek a successor. As Chadwick is considered to be too old, Bulstrode is left to choose between Vansittart, whom many believe she will choose, and Rich, who is young and has many ideas. One night, Springer is found by Johnson and Chadwick, shot dead in the Sports Pavilion. When the police begin to investigate, Goodman reveals to Inspector Kelsey, and later to Bulstrode, that he works for British Intelligence - he is at Meadowbank to track down the gems Rawlinson smuggled out, while monitoring Princess Shaista, Ali Yusuf's cousin, who is attending the school for this term.During the investigation, Jennifer complains that her racquet feels unbalanced since being abroad, and switches it for that of her friend Julia Upjohn, while she awaits a new one. Later, a woman gives Jennifer a new racquet to replace her current one, claiming it is from her Aunt Gina. However, the sharper Julia suspects this is not the case as the two girls had swapped racquets, and Aunt Gina later writes to reveal that she had not sent her niece the new racquet. The following weekend, Shaista is kidnapped by someone posing as her uncle's chauffeur, while on the night of the kidnapping, Vansittart is murdered with a sandbag in the Sports Pavilion. ...عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «گربه ای در میان کبوترها»؛ «قتل در مدو بانک»؛ «گربه ای در میان کبوتران»؛ «الماسهای قاتل»؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش سال1996میلادیعنوان: گربه ای در میان کبوترها؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: عباس کرمی فر؛ تهران، نشر ارغوان، سال1372، در294ص؛ موضوع داستانهای پلیسی از نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده20معنوان: قتل در مدو بانک؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: ثریا قیصری؛ تهران، نشر سمیر، سال1374، در293ص؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، گوهرین: راستی نو؛ سال1378، در293ص؛ شابک9646886159؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، راستی نو، سال1378، در293ص؛ شابک9645611164؛ عنوان: گربه ای در میان کبوتران؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: فرزام حبیبی اصفهانی؛ تهران، نشر هرمن، سال1383، در298ص؛ چاپ دوم سال1385؛عنوان: الماسهای قاتل؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: بهرام افراسیابی؛ تهران، نشر مهرفام نگاه، سال1389، در431ص؛ شابک9789649915371؛قتلی در دبیرستان دخترانه «مدوبانک» صورت میگیرد، عنوان اصلی کتاب «گربه در میان کبوترها»ست؛ ماجرای داستان در مدرسه‌ ی شبانه‌ روزی دخترانه‌ ای رخ می‌دهد، که همگان از دانش آموزان آن، از طبقات ممتاز هستند، در این میان، شاهزاده خانمی، از کشور «رامات»، به این مدرسه می‌رود؛ اما پس از چندی ناپدید می‌شود، و...؛تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 03/09/1399هجری خوورشیدی؛ 12/01/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Baba

November 10, 2022

Hercule Poirot book No.34 is one of my favourites in the series. It starts with a coup in a (fictional) Middle Eastern Kingdom and moves to a homicide ridden private girls school in the UK.Poirot is convinced that among the seemingly innocent staff, that that there's a cat among the pigeons, or indeed cats. plural. Great mystery, a very solid Four Star, 8 out of 12 read for me.2014 read

Anne

July 17, 2022

A respected girl's school becomes a hotbed for murder, theft, spies, and political intrigue.There was a shocking lack of cats and pigeons in this book, though.When a middle eastern ruler realizes a coup is coming, he entrusts the family jewels to his personal pilot, who also happens to be his boyhood best friend. The pilot's sister and her daughter are visiting, so he secretly hides them away in his niece's belongings in the hopes they will be smuggled out of the country to be retrieved at a later date.Unfortunately, someone nefarious sees him. Back at the boarding school, shenanigans happen as all different forces converge in an attempt to be the first to recover the sparkly suckers.And when an unlikable gym teacher is found dead, the powers that be call in Hercule Poirot to try to sort out the mess. Was she killed because she knew something about the gems or killed because she made someone run an extra lap?One murder leads to another, and by the end of it, secrets are spilling out of every nook and cranny. Too many secrets, in fact. Do any of them lead to the jewels and killer?In the end, everything might just hinge on a clever girl and a tennis racket. And of course, Poirot. Recommended.

Dana-Adriana B.

April 02, 2021

Inceputul a fost mai greoi dar finalul a fost memorabil. Ca de obicei, Poirot are metodele lui de a depista adevarul. Scoala Meadowbank este pusa intr-o postura neplacuta dupa ce 3 profesoare sunt gasite moarte. Cum se spune:nestematele sucesc mintile femeilor. Ca norocul nu suntem toate la fel :))

Ken

April 13, 2021

This oddly structured mystery has three distinctively different parts that weirdly works so well together.The initial setup consists of something akin to Christie's espionage thrillers that informs the reader exactly why the murders were committed.It opens with the fictional Kingdom of Ramat on the brink of revolution and Prince Ali trusts his pilot Bob Rawlinson to help smuggle a fortune of jewellery out of the country.A prestigious all girls school is a perfect setting for these types of mysterys.It's during this part that we're introduced to a host of characters/suspects.It's quite surprising with how late Poriot shows up within this novel, though the way that he is brought upto speed with the events at Meadowbank School and how the first two sections seamlessly combined are some of the strongest moments in this particular title.Like most Christie's I was completely fooled by the solution and it took that famous Belgium detective to perfectly explain it all too me.

Sophie

November 01, 2015

I loved all the detail about the school in this novel, which is why I gave it four stars. The plot is not one of Agatha's best, though it's not bad. But, as in Hickory Dickory Dock, Poirot presents much of the solution without telling us how he came to work it out, and Agatha novels work best when we are able to follow the workings of Poirot's mind more closely. However, all the school stuff makes this novel enjoyable and atmospheric.

Jaina

November 29, 2020

I was going to try to fit another non-fiction title into this month, but instead I read this delightfully catty Poirot novel and ate two chocolate bars.A bit light on Poirot himself (he rolls in about 3/4 of the way through), and heavy on international intrigue. Fans of the classic suspects-in-the-parlor might not vibe with this one quite as much.

Tita

May 04, 2019

Conhecemos logo no início da história um príncipe de um país do Médio Oriente, que por causa da revolução, decide fugir mas antes, entrega a um grande amigo inglês, as jóias de família para as fazer sair do país. Percebemos que este amigo, esconde as jóias na bagagem da sua irmã e sobrinha mas também, que mais alguém viu.A acção passa depois para um prestigiado colégio feminino, em Inglaterra, onde vamos conhecendo o corpo docente, bem como o núcleo mais importante de estudantes.E eis que, uma noite, uma professora e encontrada morta e inicia-se a investigação policial.O livro surpreendeu-me muito. Primeiro, pela intervenção tardia de Poirot que aparece só no último quinto do livro, como também por quem o contratou.Uma vez mais, não consegui deslindar todos os mistérios.Vejam a minha opinião mais detalhada em vídeo, AQUI.

Julian

May 19, 2021

This is a superb book and it's so easy to read. Murder(s) in a girls' school leave some of the mistresses dead, but who did it? Well, it turns out that it's not quite that straighforward and not everyone is who they appear to be, even one of the pupils isn't who she says she is. Of course, Hercule Poirot has it all under control and everything is explained. The dialogue drives the story and is so natural, that's how people talked in those days, and you have to admire the author's ear for making each individual sound different in such easily distinguished ways.If you have never read an Agatha Christie book before, this would be a good one to start on as it is effortlessly brilliant from beginning to end whilst being easy to read. What more could you wish for?

Andrei

August 08, 2016

Ca fiecare carte pe care am citit-o de la Agatha Christie : PERFECTĂ!

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