Cards on the Table (Poirot)
By (Author) Agatha Christie
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
2nd November 2017
20th July 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
272
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
190g
A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players
Mr Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he was a man of whom everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Poirot that he considered murder an art form, the detective had some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitanas private collection.
Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether
The finest murder story of her career Mrs Christie has never been more ingenious
Daily Mail
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.