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A detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot and other crime professionals. The plot involves a murder at a dinner party where the guests play bridge and reveal their secrets.
- Agatha Christie
- 1936
Mar 19, 2006 · Cards on the Table: Directed by Sarah Harding. With David Suchet, James Alper, Philip Bowen, Cordelia Bugeja. The enigmatic, sinister Mr. Shaitana, one of London's richest men, invites 8 guests, 4 of them possible murderers and 4 'detectives' to his opulent apartment.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Sarah Harding
- 2006-03-19
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- Foreword by Agatha Christie
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The mysterious Mr Shaitana involves Poirot and three other sleuths for a dinner along with what he calls his collection: four people whom he believes have gotten away with murder. He tells his guests that he will make an announcement during the dinner but he dies while the guests are playing bridge. The novel also contains a foreword by the author,...
The Victim 1. Mr Shaitana, a collector of all rare things, including murderers; very rich and mysterious The Four Detectives 1. Superintendent Battle, a stolid officer from Scotland Yard 2. Colonel Race, a debonair Secret Service agent, also featured as a character in Death on the Nile 3. Ariadne Oliver, writer of popular detective fiction, untidy ...
Unusually for a novel, Cards on the Table does not contain a dedication. Instead Agatha Christie wrote a foreword in which she tells readers that in the case of this book, it is not a matter of looking for the least likely suspect, which has become a fashion in crime novels. There are only four suspects and the killer is indeed one of them. They ha...
References to other works
1. In chapter 2, Anne Meredith, when introduced to Poirot, already knows of him from his having solved The A.B.C. Murders. 1. In chapter 2, Anne Meredith tells Poirot that she knows Ariadne Oliver from her book The Body in the Library, which was the title of a booklater written by Agatha Christie and published in 1942. 1. In chapter 15, Major Despard asks Poirot if he has ever had a failure. Poirot replies that the last time was 28 years ago, probably a reference to The Chocolate Box, a short...
References in other works
1. In The A.B.C. Murders, Poirot mentions to Hastings his vision of an ideal case. It is in fact the plot of this novel. 2. When Poirot meets Race in Death on the Nile, Christie writes: "Hercule Poirot had come across Colonel Race a year previously in London. They had been fellow-guests at a very strange dinner party—a dinner party that had ended in death for that strange man, their host." 3. Major Despard and Rhoda, now his wife, reappear in The Pale Horse (1961), the only time suspects were...
1981 Stage Adaptation
The book was adapted as a playin 1981, although without Poirot. It opened at London's Vaudeville Theatre on 9 December 1981 with Gordon Jackson as Superintendent Battle and a cast that included Derek Waring, Belinda Carroll, Mary Tamm and Patricia Driscoll. This followed Christie's trend of adapting Poirot novels as plays, but without Poirot as a detective, as she did not feel that any actor could portray him successfully.
ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot
ITV adapted the story as episode 2 of series 10 of their series Agatha Christie's Poirot. This starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamakeras Ariadne Oliver. The episode aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.
Les Petits Meurtes d'Agatha
A French adaptation Cartes sur table was made as episode 6 of season 2 of the series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie, first broadcast on France 2 on 3 Oct 2014.
1936: Collins Crime Club (London), November 2, 1936, Hardcover, 288 pp1936: The Saturday Evening Postin 6 parts from May 2, 19361942: Mercury Mystery53, abridged, Lawrence Spivak, 1942.1956: Surprise Endings by Hercule Poirot(omnibus), Dodd Mead, 1956Czech: Karty na stole(Cards on the Table)Farsi: ورقها روی میز (Cards on the Table)Dutch: Poirot speelt bridge(Poirot Plays Bridge)Finnish: Kortit pöydällä(Cards on the Table)Cards on the Table is the second episode of series ten of Agatha Christie's Poirot. It was broadcast on 19 March 2006. The screenplay was written by Nick Dear, and the episode was directed by Sarah Harding. It is a feature-length adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name.
A classic mystery novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver, who investigate a murder at a bridge party. Learn about the story, the characters, the stage and TV adaptations, and the graphic novel version.
A murder mystery set in London, where Hercule Poirot investigates a crime among four guests with dark secrets. Learn about the plot, characters, themes, and insights of this thrilling detective story.
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A classic whodunit featuring Hercule Poirot, who investigates a murder at a bridge party hosted by a wealthy and eccentric collector. Read ratings, reviews, and book details of this 1936 crime fiction by the best-selling author of all time.
