He invites Poirot to a dinner party to meet them. Scoffing at the idea of collecting mere artefacts, Shaitana explains that he collects only the best exhibits: criminals who have evaded justice. Mr Shaitana, a flamboyant collector, meets Hercule Poirot by chance at an art exhibition and brags about his personal crime-related collection. She notes that the book is no less interesting for that since “when all is said and done it is the mind of the murderer that is of supreme interest”. The novel contains a foreword by the author in which she explains that the novel has only four suspects and that since any of them, given the right circumstances, might have committed the crime, the deduction must be “entirely psychological”. Identifying the murderer, according to the author, depends wholly on discerning the psychology of the suspects. At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr Shaitana. The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, with the crime writer Ariadne Oliver making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book will be posted in 1 to 2 days of purchase.Cards on the Table is a detective fiction novel by the English author Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The writing within is a bit faint in places but the majority is fine. END - Bonus: THE LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of Agatha Christie - Consists of 5 pages bound as an A4 report with a glossy image of Agatha Christie to the front.
There are also a few cellotape repairs to the page margins to hold the pages in place. Few soil marks throughout and age-browned. It's still a tightly bound little book overall. I have supplied pictures that show you the condition. Some remnants and other marks in general. It may well have been rebound at some point in it's history.
It is printed on acid free paper and enclosed in a durable plastic archival sleeve for longevity and future protection. The dustjacket is a facsimile of the first impression and retains the price on the inner prelim 7/6. CARDS ON THE TABLE - FIRST EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING.
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