Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59495 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Synopsis
Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder...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!

Customer Reviews

No sight of Poirot!
I am an ardent fan of Agatha Christie but this book was a bit let down when it came to Poirot!, he was introduced in the plot when 3/4 th of the book was read! and the reader was not given a clue regarding the culprit. These 2 are the underlying strenghts of Agatha Christie which was mising in the book.Still a 4 star as the narration was excellent, as usual!

My favourite Christie book so far.
I loved this book and read it in a few days. If mystery is your thing, I highly recommand you read this book. It is very fun and original. I always try and guess who the murderer could be but this one, I had to keep on changing my mind. In the end I couldn't guess and I just had my suspisions. This book has the most delightful characters and with three murders is is highly entertaining! You should read this book!

Really good book
This is an enjoyable book, and it is interesting to read about murders happening at a school. It is not perhaps quite as good as most of the other reviews have implied, it is certainly an enjoyable story, but there are better ones.

It is a new school year in an all girls school and things start off fairly typically, until the unpopular games mistress is found shot in the middle of the night. For most of the students, this seems an interesting thing to happen in a school, but when two more murders occur, and one of the students is abducted, everydoy has a sudden sense of fear and it stops being an exciting thing to happen in school and changes to something terrifying.

I found this novel highly enjoyable, but some of the other reviewers are implying that it is a masterpiece and in my opinion it is far from it. Unlike in some of Christie's masterpieces, there is little clever set up of subtle clues and there are barely any clues to use to guess the identity of the murderer and the only real way of finding out was something that one of the mothers saw on the first day of school. The identity of the murderer was a surprise to me.

Despite some of the flaws I have stated, this is still a great book and I reccomend it.