ingilizce hazırlık unit 12 / 238
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The Cat Among The Pigeons - B
1 Detective Hercule Poirot had to solve the chain of crime at school. He believed that the attacker was among the staff. According to his
research, the kidnapped princess wasn’t the real princess. Fake princess ran away from the school but, The real Princess Shaista was kidnapped a year ago before the summer term in Switzerland. Was the attacker Eileen Rich? Miss. Rich was in Ramat at the time of revolution.
2 Detective Hercule Poirot asked Mrs. Upjohn to return from her holiday for an interview. That day Mrs. Upjohn identified the attacker’s face among the staff’s photographs in Mrs. Bulstrode’s room (Mrs. Upjohn had warned Miss. Bulstrode about the same person before but Miss. Bulstrode wasn’t able to focus on the issue). The attacker was Ann Shapland, Miss. Bulstrode’s secretary. When Mrs. Bulstrode heard this, she began to glare at everybody in her room. Shapland was an agent of a foreign country but she was the member of the British Intelligence too. Everybody knew her as a merciless and a cruel woman. She knew where the jewels were, because Ann Shapland was the woman nextdoor to Bob Rawlinson. She saw while Bob Rawlinson was hiding Prince Ali Yusuf’s fortune in the luggage of his sister Mrs.Joan Sutcliffe. That day, Ann Shapland wanted to shoot Mrs. Sutcliffe. Miss. Bulstrode tried to keep Mrs. Joan Sutcliffe safe from Shapland’s attack. At that moment Miss. Chadwick wanted to defend Miss. Bulstrode but that time Shapland’s attack caused Miss. Chadwick’s to faint on the ground in her room and Shapland locked her in a room. Through Hercule Poirot research, it became clear that Ann Shapland threatened Miss Springer's life while Miss. Springer was looking for the jewels in the gym. Ann Shapland kidnapped Miss. Blanche because Miss. Blanche knew that Shapland threatened Miss. Springer's life and that’s why Miss. Blanche was always trying to blackmail Ann Shapland. This situation was disturbing Ann Shapland deeply.
3 Shapland did nothing to Miss. Vansittart although the way of crime was the same. Miss. Chadwick attacked Miss. Vansittart with a rabid squirrel in the gym because Miss. Vansittart was searching for jewels in Shaista’s cupboard in the
gym when they met. In fact, she hated Miss. Vansittart. It was impossible for Miss. Chadwick to accept her as a headmistress. Committing crime made Miss. Chadwick unhappy. The feeling of guilt began to annoy her, so she jumped forward to protect Mrs. Bulstrode from shooting. In truth, Miss. Chadwick didn’t want Miss. Bulstrode to retire. She said this to Miss. Bulstrode beforefainting and passing away. Miss. Bulstrode didn’tretire. She explained that Miss. Rich was goingto be the headmistress after her.
4 Detective Hercule Poirot found the family jewellery and he returned them to the English woman. She was Prince Ali Yusuf’s wife to whom he got married secretly when he was a student. Prince Ali Yusuf’s wife gave an emerald to Julia Upjohn for her good work.