Description

First Australian Edition [The Crime Club, Sydney, 1959]; 256 pages; pink cloth, black titling to spine, bookseller stamp inside front board, faint foxing to block top, else fine; in near-fine dustjacket, a little bumped along edges, verso slight discolouration

A dash of intrigue in a small Middle Eastern kingdom results in a collection of costly jewels smuggled into the most unlikely of places–a prestigious girls’ boarding school in England. There’s quite a range of personalities at Meadowbank among the students and teachers, but headmistress Miss Bulstrode oversees everything with her strict regulations and customary finesse. But when murder shatters the school, fear becomes the pervading atmosphere, and one student will sneak out to call on that famous detective she heard of–Monsieur Poirot.