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| Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) | 
| Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 52900
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0425205967
Dewey Decimal Number: 823
EAN: 9780425205969
ASIN: 0425205967
Publication Date: July 5, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 WILL SOMEONE LET THE WOMAN SPEAK? May 17, 2008
Whose work are we actually reading at this point? There were already major differences in punctuation, word choices, and scene breaks between the original Collins and Dodd Mead editions of this novel. There were further differences between the Dodd Mead editions republished by Random House/Avenel and the Dodd Mead editions republished by Simon & Shuster/Pocket. There are further additions still in the recent Signet, Berkley, and Leventhal and Black editions. For every publishing house putting out her works, there seem to be a new batch of editors altering Agatha Christie's words and the sound of her voice. Here the publishers at Collins, dissatisfied with their own earlier efforts, put still more distance between author and public with a "New Ed" edition. What's the matter with these publishers? Whose voice do they think we want to hear when we sit down to a novel by Agatha Christie? And what will she sound like twenty years from now? It's frightening that her estate has failed to see the importance of guarding her words as she wrote them. Please tell me I'm not the only one here who senses that a crime has been committed.
Totally Stumped Me April 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am usually able to pick up on clues in Agatha Christie's books. This one totally stumped me. I did figure out where the jewels were hidden. I think that was pretty obvious. As to who the murderer was, I had no clue whatsoever. The setting for this book is a private girls school to which even a real princess is attending (one of the red herrings). This became so engrossing mainly because I couldn't figure it out. When the truth was revealed in the end, the choice of bad guy didn't disappoint me at all. But I was really shocked. The title of the book really fits, but I might have called it Extremely Clever and Crafty Cat Among the Pigeons.
 Not Free SF Reader November 3, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
School Escape.
Cat Among the Pigeons is a mystery involving a tiny tin-pot country, revolution, and jewellery.
Poirot gets involved with an investigation at a very toffy girl's school, and he doesn't really expect to get involved in international intrigue, but it doesn't take him long to work out something odd is going on.
Short Review September 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Typical Agatha Christie Poirot mystery. Wish I had purchased in hardcover
as softcover kinda fell apart
I wish there would be more emphasis on the Poirot character than all the others
 How far can one go? August 7, 2006
How far can a person really go to kill, to slice on'e self, to glide through the world of evil. Poirot, the belgian detective scrambling through the holes of a mystery like a mouse, not powerful but ready to zoom in.That day when I went to the library he was prepared to zoom in to a barden school for girls. It seems very peaceful until two teachers die. The interesting thing about this book ias that Poirot comes at the end. Thsi is a sign.. at the end things gom wrong. In each Poirot mystery there is a lesson to be learned, a thread to pull on. Not 0only these suspects learn, but we do too! This book has elemants of a regular mystery but thery disapear to a far away island they do not escape but get covered. By Hercule Poirot, the suspects. And I still now am getting covered up. For Iam a cat among the pigoens, we all are and all will be.
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