Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot Mysteries) - Softcover

Christie, Agatha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425105679 ISBN 13: 9780425105672

Publisher: Berkley, 1987

Synopsis

One of four famous sleuths invited to a fatal bridge game, Hercule Poirot finds himself in the company of four additional players, each of whom has gotten away with murder. Reissue.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana’s “private collection.”

Indeed, what begins as an absorbing evening of bridge is to turn into a more dangerous game altogether.…

About the Author:

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 languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0425105679
• ISBN 13: 9780425105672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224