"Cat among the pigeons" is an idiomatic expression describing a situation that causes chaos or disruption, especially when someone or something creates tension or fear in a previously calm environment
Cat Among the Pigeons is a novel by the creative author Agatha Christie, known for her mastery in detective literature, which is never without horror and surprises. The story begins with Prince Ali Yusuf worrying about a set of precious stones and diamonds, prompting him to tell his friend, pilot Bob Rollinson, who considers hiding the stones in the tennis racket of his niece, Jennifer, who studies at Medobank School. We will need this information later to decode the incident.
Prince Ali Yusuf and pilot Rollinson head to an area in the Middle East called Ramat, where they fear for their safety. During their trip, their plane crashes, killing both men. Do you remember Jennifer? Here she is, back at school, starting to feel a weight affecting her racket, which leads her to switch rackets with her close friend before giving it to a strange woman who approached them, claiming to be close to the girl's aunt, who sent a tennis racket as a gift for her in exchange for the old one. However, the girl is not so naive; she asks her aunt, who tells her that she did not do this and did not send anything to her. What will happen next?
We continue with the surprises of the novel Cat Among the Pigeons. One night, from the school playground, both Chadwick and Miss Johnson hear a loud gunshot. What is happening? Miss Springer, the newly appointed physical education teacher, has been killed. During the investigation, the new gardener,Goodman, reveals that he is not a gardener but works for British intelligence to find out where the stones hidden by Rollinson are located.
In the following week, the girl Shaista, who works at the school, is kidnapped by a driver claiming to be from her aunt. That night, Vancetart is also killed with a sandbag in the sports ground, prompting parents to keep their children home from school. Here, Jennifer begins to suspect something strange about the racket and discovers the jewelry and stones. At that moment, she hears footsteps approaching her room at school and tries to escape to tell Medobank, the investigator in the recent murders.
The investigator discovers the following:
The real Shaista was not the one who was kidnapped; she is another person planted among the school staff by a group searching for Ali Yusuf's hidden jewelry. Not only was she kidnapped, but she was also taken by the group before being exposed after finding nothing. Springer was killed when she saw someone searching for the tennis racket on the playground.
The investigator meets Mrs. Abjon, Jennifer's mother and Rollinson's sister, who helps him identify Chapland, the secretary to the new school principal, as merely a spy. She had been in Ramat for three months and knew very well that the diamonds were in Jennifer's racket. When Mrs. Abjon recognized her, she wanted to shoot her, and she was arrested afterward.
At the end of the novel The Cat Among the Pigeons, after discovering all the criminals in the school, investigator Medobank returns the gemstones to Ali Yusuf's secret wife, of whom no one knew anything, in exchange for giving Abjon, his sister, an emerald as a reward for enduring those hardships with her daughter
