Chief Constable Stone

In the novel Cat Among the Pigeons, Chief Constable Stone is the chief constable of the county in which Meadowbank School for Girls is situated. Because of the prominence of the school, he supervised the investgation into the murders committed but did not interfere with the specific courses of action of the individual officers conducting the investigation such as Inspector Kelsey of the Hurst St Cyprian police and Adam Goodman from Special Branch.

In the middle part of the story, he chaired a meeting which included Kelsey, Goodman and Poirot. His purpose was to draw the different threads of the investigation together and also to provide the political and diplomatic overview which had to be given to him from higher up. In this case, for example, he asked Poirot, subject to his agreement, to retain possession of jewels which Julia Upjohn had found because it would be diplomatically convenient for the British government to know nothing about it officially.

The county which Stone is in charge of is not stated.