Cards on the Table (Poirot) (Hercule Poirot Series Book 15)

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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 Shaitana’s private collection.

Indeed, what began as an absorbing evening of bridge was to turn into a more dangerous game altogether…

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0046H95O0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; Masterpiece Ed edition (14 October 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1007 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages

Reviewer: SUBIR S.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Top Class
Review: Fantastic work of art. Agatha Christie strikes again. A book I read long back and rereading was wonderful. One of her best.

Reviewer: B.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: a pretty good murder mystery book
Review: Mr Shaitana is murdered when four people are playing bridge in the same room. One of them is the murderer but who? Hercule Poirot is there to solve this murder with the help of his little grey cells!This book is not my favorite Christie book. I didn’t enjoy this book as much as her other books but still this was a solid book. The ending definitely made reading the book worthwhile as with all of her endings. I didn’t see that plot twists coming! Also there was no Dr Hastings which made the book a little less delightful for me. Even so, I’d obviously recommend this book! It’s Agatha Christie after all. Even her less favorite books are pretty great books! 🙂

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Grey Cells of Poirot comes to play again.. But…
Review: This is yet another classic, mysterious and cozy plot from Agatha Christie. A game of bridge, a murder, murderer in close vicinity, the police and the great Poirot. All set right for AC fans to enjoy the proceedings. At the end, everything gets connected obviously by Poirot and the murderer is traced elegantly.However, the core AC fans would miss that unexpected tremendous twist for which AC is known universally. Having said that, there is no discount on how marvelous Poirot’s brain thinks while he catches the murderer. Apart from a little dissatisfaction of not having a mind blowing twist at the end, nothing makes this book any lesser than Agatha’s other admired works.!Finally, choose a Saturday afternoon and hang on with this one for making an obvious wonderful Sunday.

Reviewer: Shashwat Pandey
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So aesthetic!😍🖤
Review: I opened the package and was overwhelmed by how beautiful the hardcover edition is!♥️ It’s absolutely perfect and classic. I have the facsimile edition and I love it!💯 It’s so aesthetic and feels like time travel 🖤 If you’re planning to buy this book, go for the hardcover edition, you’ll not regret your decision.Also, I don’t need to mention how good Agatha Christie is💯

Reviewer: Alexa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Yet Another Classic (NO SPOILERS)
Review: As always, Agatha Christie doesn’t fail to surprise the readers in this book either.Cards on the Table is a most engaging read where Poirot along with other people involved have absolutely nothing to follow on but the past of the 4 suspects.Best climax ever. HP and his grey cells at his best.Must Read!

Reviewer: Apurva Nagpal
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fascinating and a great psychological touch to solving the crime
Review: Yet another fascinating mystery by the Queen of Crime!A fancy art collector, Mr Shaitana invites 8 people to a party; 4 sleuths including our loved Hercule Poirot and 4 people who he knows have gotten away with murders and could be very well able to commit another.After several rounds of Bridge, the host is found murdered using an unusual object and the only possible suspects are the 4 people present in the room.We know from the beginning that it’s one of those 4 people who could’ve managed to kill him but how Poirot and Inspector Battle unfold the case and the suspects’ past was so gripping! Not to forget the psychological aspect of the case the Bridge game involved was so interesting to read.Like all Christie mysteries, I’m a fan of the characters she create and their involvement in and out of the case.The only miss for me was the rushed ending which I felt made it a little too confusing.I give this one 3.5/5 and recommend it for mystery lovers who enjoy a psychological play.

Reviewer: Nidhi Bisht
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful book
Review: Another Agatha Christie marvel.. Its different from her usual books but written beautifully.. The climax is just marvellous. One moment you think you have plot figured out but wham comes the volley by great Christie.. All in all a great read..

Reviewer: Priya
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A perfect A.C mystery.
Review: One of the bests. It had a few unexpected twists at the end, and kept the reader engaged till the last page. I couldn’t resist putting off and I completed in a single day.

Reviewer: Timothy Haugh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: As readers of my reviews probably know, I’m not a big fan of Agatha Christie. I have great respect for her talent; however, I’m not drawn to Poirot in the way that I love Sherlock Holmes or Peter Wimsey. Though I’m not much of a supporter of cancel culture and I am adamantly against bowdlerizing old books to make them “acceptable” to a modern audience, I also don’t understand how she escapes the criticism so many other authors have endured with respect to her casual racism, classism, and disdain for the young and more modern people that appear as her characters.That said, this book of 1936 is awesomely clever. A very rich, very foreign gentleman, Mr. Shaitana (“Every healthy Englishman who saw him longed earnestly and fervently to kick him! There’s that damned D—o, Shaitana!”) invites four people who have gotten away with murder to a dinner party with four people who bring murderers to justice, including Poirot. While the four murderers play bridge and the four investigators are in the next room, Shaitana is quietly killed with a stiletto. Now, it is up to Poirot to discover the murderer.Apart from the low view our author has of Shaitana, this is a wickedly clever set-up. With little to go on, Poirot has to discover the previous murders committed by the four to lead him to the current murderer. We see why the four have gotten away with it and, as the novel draws to a close, Christie does a great job of making us think that each of the guests has been discovered as the culprit before finally giving the game away in the final pages.I have always considered Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None to be among the best of mystery fiction. Recently, I have been reading more of Christie, trying to see what others see in her. For the most part, I have found the novels I’ve read to be good, not great. This one, however, I would have to rank as a great one.

Reviewer: Jorge Ribera
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es un gran libro. No decepciona en lo absoluto y llego en perfectas condiciones.

Reviewer: JS Bach
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Uno dei gialli più avvincenti della grande Christie, a mio avviso con una bella copertina, che non guasta.Una critica al prezzo, troppo alto per una versione elettronica. Dovrebbe costare la metà, a quel costo non la ricomprerei.

Reviewer: Pam C Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: What would we do without Monsieur Hercules Poirot on the case 🤔 he is a master of crime solving. I thoroughly enjoyed this book wiith its twists and turns.

Reviewer: Kayou
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: One of my favorite Christies of all time. Even if you have seen the made for tv version. Ariadne Oliver appears in this novel. This is a closed room whodunit which allows Mrs Christie to really investigate all the characters in depth and Poirot can really sink his teeth in his beloved psychology. All the aspects of a mystery novel are intensified by the challenge of a closed room. The alibi’s are brilliantly developed by Poirot. Definitely one to read over and over again.

4.5

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