Cat Among the Pigeons, by Agatha Christie
The Book Miss Boulstrode wants to retire. Sure, she stared Meadowbank with Miss Chadwick, way back in the day, but it seems Miss Vansittart will be her choice of successor. But something is holding her back and she can't quite put her finger on why. She goes ahead, welcoming the students to Meadowbank, not knowing the seeds of murder have been planted in her very garden. One of the girls is related to the personal pilot of head of Ramat, Prince Ali Yusef. Bob Rawlson, and he go way back, to their public school days. That's why Bob is entrusted to smuggle the emergency jewels out of Ramat the day of the revolution. Bob and Prince Ali then attempt to fly out of Ramat. Their plane crashes, leaving them both dead and everyone wondering what happened to the jewels. Someone knows the truth. Someone knows where Bob hid them amongst his niece's things, even if Jennifer Sutcliffe does not. Several people are sent to infiltrate the school in an attempt to find and steal...
