25-03-18 Six EARLY DAYS IIn the Mistresses Common Room news was being exchanged. Foreign travel, plays seen, ArtExhibitions visited. Snapshots were handed round. The menace of coloured transparencies was inthe offing. All the enthusiasts wanted to show their...

25-03-18 Five LETTERS FROM MEADOWBANK SCHOOL Letter from Julia Upjohn to her mother: Dear Mummy, Ive settled in now and am liking it very much. Theres a girl who is new thisterm too called Jennifer and she and I rather do things together. Were bothawfully ke...

25-03-18 Four RETURN OF A TRAVELLER IReally! said Mrs. Sutcliffe, in an annoyed voice, as she looked out of her hotel window, I dontsee why it always has to rain when one comes back to England. It makes it all seem sodepressing. I think its lovely to be back...

25-03-18 Three INTRODUCING MR. ROBINSON It was some six weeks later that a young man tapped discreetly on the door of a room inBloomsbury and was told to come in. It was a small room. Behind a desk sat a fat middle-aged man slumped in a chair. He waswearing...

25-03-18 Two THE WOMAN ON THE BALCONY IAs Bob Rawlinson walked along the echoing marble corridors of the Palace, he had never felt sounhappy in his life. The knowledge that he was carrying three-quarters of a million pounds in histrousers pocket caused him a...

25-03-18 One REVOLUTION IN RAMAT About two months earlier than the first day of the summer term at Meadowbank, certain eventshad taken place which were to have unexpected repercussions in that celebrated girls school. In the Palace of Ramat, two young men sa...

25-03-18 Agatha Christie Cat Among the Pigeons A Hercule Poirot Mystery Prologue SUMMER TERM IIt was the opening day of the summer term at Meadowbank school. The late afternoon sun shonedown on the broad gravel sweep in front of the house. The front door was...

25-03-03 Twenty Hercule Poirot paused a moment at the big wrought iron gates. He looked ahead of him along the curving drive. The last of the golden-brown leaves fluttered down from the trees. The cyclamen were over. Poirot sighed. He turned aside and rapped...

25-03-03 Nineteen The chief constable and Inspector Bland looked up with keen curiosity as Hercule Poirot was ushered in. The chief constable was not in the best of tempers. Only Blands quiet persistence had caused him to cancel his dinner appointment for th...

25-03-03 Seventeen After leaving Nasse, Poirot went to the village where, by inquiry, he found the cottage occupied by the Tuckers. His knock at the door went unanswered for some moments as it was drowned by the high-pitched tone of Mrs. Tuckers voice from i...