title: Cat Among the Pigeons Complete & Unabridged
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: 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 the unpopular games mistress -- shot through the heart from point blank range. 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!
zlib_text: Cat Among the Pigeons
  
  Cat Among the Pigeons
  Cat Among the Pigeons
  
  Cat Among the Pigeons
  
  Prologue - SUMMER TERM
  It was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school. The late afternoon sun shone
  down on the broad gravel sweep in front of the house. The front door was flung hospitably wide and,
  just within it, admirably suited to irs Georgian proportions, stood Miss Vansittart, every hair in place,
  wearing an impeccably cut coat and skirt.
  Some parents who knew no better had taken her for the great Miss Bulstrode herself, not knowing
  that it was Miss Bulstrode's custom to retire to a kind of holy of holies to which only a selected and
  privileged few were taken.
  To one side of Miss Vansittart, operating on a slightly different plane, was Miss Chadwick,
  comfortable, knowledgeable, and so much a part of Meadowbank that it would have been impossible
  to imagine Meadowbank without her. It never had been without her. Miss Bulstrode and Miss
  Chadwick had started Meadowbank school to