A review by lelia_t
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

5.0

This is my favorite Christie mystery. Set in a prestigious girls’ school, with students on the cusp of womanhood, it’s a very woman dominated world. A cast of females - mothers, teachers, the magisterial director Miss Bulstrode, and students, including the keen-minded Julia and her tennis-obsessed friend Jennifer - have created almost a closed, self-sufficient world - a world that's been infiltrated by a killer. Poirot doesn’t appear until late in the book, when he works his accustomed magic, figures out what’s what and who’s who and then makes his gentlemanly exit, leaving the school once again in the hands of the more-than-capable women.

I love the world Christie creates here - the girls haven't yet awakened to the distracting charms of men, the women are putting into practice their ideals, pursing their dreams and goals, with a few falls from grace along the way - some forgivable, others deadly.