Welcome to Meadowbank, an exclusive school for privileged young ladies. A fine lot. A dangerous one, too. Two teachers have already bitten the dust. It's obvious to Hercule Poirot that someone is out to scratch Meadowbank's respectable veneer. - Publisher.
After strangers pillage her cabin and try to strangle her, Anne must solve a mystery concerning a ballet dancer who is brutally murdered and a vanishing fortune in diamonds.