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* SpyFiction: Given the focus on international politics as well as the presence of multiple secret agents in its cast of characters, as well as Poirot's presence being limited to the final stretch of the book, the novel can be seen as Creator/AgathaChristie's crack at creating one.
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* GenreSavvy: Julia Upjohn figures out quickly [[spoiler: after finding the jewels]] that she's in danger and takes precautions, which probably save her life
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* GenreSavvy: Julia Upjohn figures out quickly [[spoiler: after finding the jewels]] that she's in danger and takes precautions, which probably save her lifelife.
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* UndercoverCopReveal : Adam Goodman. His actual agency isn't specified, but he's either Special Branch or domestic intelligence. Played with in that the reader is introduced to him as he's instructed to go undercover, played straight later on with the police Inspector investigating Miss Springer's murder during his initial questioning.
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* UndercoverCopReveal : UndercoverCopReveal: Adam Goodman. His actual agency isn't specified, but he's either Special Branch or domestic intelligence. Played with in that the reader is introduced to him as he's instructed to go undercover, played straight later on with the police Inspector investigating Miss Springer's murder during his initial questioning.
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--> The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could ever have been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna--though not one or the other in particular. He was definitely not Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portuguese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.
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--> The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could ever have been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna--though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely not Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portuguese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.
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''Cat Among the Pigeons'' is a 1959 mystery novel by Creator/AgathaChristie, featuring detective Literature/HerculePoirot.
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''Cat Among the Pigeons'' is a 1959 mystery novel by Creator/AgathaChristie, featuring detective Literature/HerculePoirot.
Franchise/HerculePoirot.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Miss Shapland "broke out in a low-pitched flood of invective" when she is unmasked as the killer.
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Miss Shapland [[spoiler:Miss Shapland]] "broke out in a low-pitched flood of invective" when she is unmasked as the killer.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Eileen Rich just happens to go to Ramat to hide her pregnancy and one of her students, Jennifer Sutcliffe sees her, but doesn't recognize her
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Eileen [[spoiler:Eileen Rich just happens to go to Ramat to hide her pregnancy and one of her students, Jennifer Sutcliffe sees her, but doesn't recognize herher.]]
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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Miss Blanche]] knew the identity of Miss Springer's killer and attempted to blackmail them. Unsurprisingly, this only gets her killed.
* BlackmailBackfire: Just about every time in an Agatha Christie novel, a character who decides to engage in blackmail gets killed. It happens to Miss Blanche in this story, as she tries blackmailing the killer.
* BlackmailBackfire: Just about every time in an Agatha Christie novel, a character who decides to engage in blackmail gets killed. It happens to Miss Blanche in this story, as she tries blackmailing the killer.
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* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:Miss Blanche]] knew the identity of Miss Springer's killer and attempted to blackmail them. [[BlackmailBackfire Unsurprisingly, this only gets her killed.
* BlackmailBackfire: Just about every time in an Agatha Christie novel, a character who decides to engage in blackmail gets killed. It happens to Miss Blanche in this story, as she tries blackmailing the killer.killed.]]
* BlackmailBackfire: Just about every time in an Agatha Christie novel, a character who decides to engage in blackmail gets killed. It happens to Miss Blanche in this story, as she tries blackmailing the killer.
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* ShotgunWedding: [[spoiler:Prince Ali Yusuf and Alice get married when they find out that Alice is pregnant.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Eileen Rich just happens to go to Ramat to hide her pregnancy and one of her students, Jennifer Sutcliffe sees her, but doesn't recognize her
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Miss Blanche.]]
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* GenreSavvy: Julia Upjohn figures out quickly [[spoiler: after finding the jewels]] that she's in danger and takes precautions, which probably save her life
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Miss Blanche.]]]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Miss Blanche.
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* TitleDrop: By Eileen Rich, talking about the odd feeling she has had since the beginning of the term (Eileen is noted to be highly intuitive)
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* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Miss Shapland "broke out in a low-pitched flood of invective" when she is unmasked as the killer.
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* CallBack: Julia Upjohn, who [[spoiler: discovers the cache of jewels and]] brings the case to Poirot's attention, is the god-daughter of Maureen Summerhayes from ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'':
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* CallBack: ContinuityNod: Julia Upjohn, who [[spoiler: discovers the cache of jewels and]] brings the case to Poirot's attention, is the god-daughter of Maureen Summerhayes from ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'':
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Julia says she guesses there will be a second murder. When asked why she says "Well, there's usually a second murder in books." (There is a second murder, and then a third.)
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* NameDrop: By Eileen Rich, talking about the odd feeling she has had since the beginning of the term (Eileen is noted to be highly intuitive)
-->'''Eileen:''' ... it's like a cat among the pigeons, but we can't ''see'' the cat.
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-->'''Eileen:''' ... it's like a cat among the pigeons, but we can't ''see'' the cat.
** Poirot later drops that phrase twice.
* OneGenderSchool: Meadowbrook is a school for girls in (apparently) their mid-late teens.
* {{Perfumigation}}: Princess Shaista arrives, "prefaced by such a gust of expensive perfume as almost to knock Miss Bulstrode backwards."
* {{Perfumigation}}: Princess Shaista arrives, "prefaced by such a gust of expensive perfume as almost to knock Miss Bulstrode backwards."
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* {{Qurac}}: A hunt for a [[spoiler: cache of jewels]] once owned by the Prince of Ramat.
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* {{Qurac}}: A hunt for a [[spoiler: cache of jewels]] once owned by the Prince of Ramat."Ramat".
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* SpySpeak: Bob has a code when he's talking to John Edmundson, his friend at the embassy in Ramat. If Bob uses the phrase "Out of this world," it means that there's something urgent and they must meet.
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* SummationGathering: Poirot gathers all the characters together to summarize the crime and reveal the murderer.
* TakingTheBullet: Miss Chadwick steps in front of Miss Bulstrode and takes a bullet meant for the latter. Eventually, Miss Chadwick dies.
* TakingTheBullet: Miss Chadwick steps in front of Miss Bulstrode and takes a bullet meant for the latter. Eventually, Miss Chadwick dies.
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-->'''Eileen:''' ... it's like a cat among the pigeons, but we can't ''see'' the cat.
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-->'''Eileen:''' ... it's like a cat among the pigeons, but we can't ''see'' the cat.
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** Miss Vansittart sees a person with a flashlight in the gym. She knows that Miss Springer went to investigate after seeing a mysterious flashlight in the gym, and was murdered. Miss Vansittart decides to go on her own anyway to investigate, and is murdered in turn.
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* HilariousInHindsight: The offscreen adventure of Mrs. Upjohn, taking a bus to Anatolia, becomes this with the announcement of [[https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-bus-journey-istanbul-to-london/index.html a 56-day luxury bus tour from Istanbul to London.]]
