Cards on the Table
A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are...
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A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden. Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr. Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum—a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in "getting away with it." After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum's finest in order to determine the most likely killer. Poirot finds that many distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780563536482 (0563536489)
Publish date: February 23rd 2010
Publisher: AudioGO
Edition language: English
Series: Hercule Poirot (#15)
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 was a fun read. With lots and lots of murders. It had a great concept, brilliant writing and Hercule Poirot.
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...