The is the 15th book featuring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. The plot of Cards on the Table is Poirot investigating what person out of a suspect list of four people killed the host. Poirot comes across Mr. Shaitana after he tells him that he plans on having a dinner party with four sleuths (Poir...
Synopsis Four people are playing bridge, and in the course of the game their host, who has been sitting out, is murdered. Any of the four, given the right circumstances, might have committed the crime, for each of them is known to have committed at any rate one murder and is quite capable of committ...
This is a Poirot mystery, and one I hadn't read before, and one from the "classic" period - 1936. A man who brags to Poirot that he collects people - specifically, people who got away with murder - hosts a dinner party that proves fatal, of four sleuths (Inspector Battle of Scotland Yard, Hercule ...
Four people who got away with murders, four sleuths, one party.The story began with Hercule Poirot’s interaction with Mr. Shaitana, with the latter invited him to a special party where four murderers who got away with their crimes were to be present. When Poirot turned up at the party, he met with M...
bookshelves: published-1936, mystery-thriller, series, spring-2012, radio-4x, fradio, classic, play-dramatisation Read from April 27 to 30, 2012 Looks good for a Sunday afternoon. When a murderer strikes during a game of bridge, Poirot happens to be one of the guests.
Really as usual a most cleverly written story by A.C. the extraordinary Mr Shaitana is murdered. First the suspicion falls upon one of the women against whom M Shaitana might have had some kind of a dirty secret in possession. but as it turned out a perpetrator of the murder is a doc, namely dr Robe...
A very refreshing Christie, if I may say so. And I may, since she tells you so herself in the foreword: only four suspects, all known upfront and all equally likely to have committed the investigated murder.Needless to say, in a purely psychological investigation, Poirot is at his best. Or should I ...
Oh, good grief! I ususally love, Agatha Christie, but this book bored me to tears! I couldn't have cared less who killed our victim--in fact, I was sort of hoping he/she could just pop out of the book and take me out of my misery! Way too many chefs in the kitchen in this book--could have totally...
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