Cards on the Table
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Hercule Poirot, along with three other top detectives, is invited to a bridge party where they are challenged to spot four murderers
Krystyna Bockenheim Books
Recovering from amnesia, Dr. Arthur Calgary discovers that he alone could have provided an alibi in a scandalous murder trial. It ended in the conviction of Jacko Argyle. The victim was Jacko's own mother, and to make matters worse, he died in prison. But the young man's innocence means that someone else killed the Argyle matriarch, and would certainly kill again to remain in the shadows. Shaded in the moral ambiguity of murder, the provocative psychological puzzler of guilt, vengeance, and blood secrets is among Agatha Christie's personal favorites.
As instructed, stenographer Stella Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then she made a grisly discovery: the body of a man sprawled across the floor.