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Oh yes, I so agree on that -- and I oddly like
Cat Among the Pigeons, too. I'm not a big fan of the Golden Age (or, well, classic crime writers') penchant for inventing colorful, half-savage fictitious foreign settings, but Ramat is really just a generic name for half a dozen Middle Eastern countries undergoing or on the brink of a(n anti-British) revolution at the time of its writing, and for what it is it works well enough here.
And I love how the story comes to life in the David Suchet adaptation -- the teachers in particular are so much more rounded than in the novel.
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