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Two Blows to the Head.
Cat Among the Pigeons
In a palace in Ramat a prince entrusts a packet of jewels to his pilot, in the hope that he can smuggle them to England. But before the packet reaches its destination the prince and the pilot are both dead. To the people after the jewels, murder is a small price for jewels worth millions of pounds. Then a frightened girl brings Hercule Poirot one of the most challenging cases of his long and brilliant career: A killer is terrorizing a famous school for girls; an unsuspecting student has become a magnet for evil and death. Somehow the two cases are linked and only Poirot can solve this double mystery.Year: 1959
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: England
Detective: Hercule Poirot
Location: England
Cast of characters
Hercule Poirot. Also: Prince Ali Yusef, Miss Blake, Mlle. Angele Blanche, Sergeant Percy Bond, Miss Bulstrode, Alice Calder, Miss Chadwick, John Edmundson, Georges, Adam/Ronnie Goodman, Miss Johnson (2), Detective Inspector Kelsey, Derek O'Connor, Colonel Pikeaway, Denis Rathbone, Bob Rawlinson, Eileen Rich, Mr. Robinson, Miss Rowan, Princess Shaista, Ann Shapland, Miss Grace Springer, Jennifer and Joan Sutcliffe, Mrs. Upjohn, Julia Upjohn, Miss VansittartPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1959 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and in 1960 by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. The novel has not been adapted for stage or screen.Notes and reviews
Colonel Pikeaway, in charge of intelligence, appears again in Passenger to Frankfurt and Postern of Fate. Mr Robinson also appears in Postern of Fate and At Bertram's Hotel.Murder methods:
One Gunshot.Two Blows to the Head.
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