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Agatha Christie
Cards on the Table
A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Foreword
1. Mr. Shaitana
2. Dinner at Mr. Shaitana’s
3. A Game of Bridge
4. First Murderer?
5. Second Murderer?
6. Third Murderer?
7. Fourth Murderer?
8. Which of Them?
9. Dr. Roberts
10. Dr. Roberts (continued)
11. Mrs. Lorrimer
12. Anne Meredith
13. Second Visitor
14. Third Visitor
15. Major Despard
16. The Evidence of Elsie Batt
17. The Evidence of Rhoda Dawes
18. Tea Interlude
19. Consultation
20. The Evidence of Mrs. Luxmore
21. Major Despard
22. Evidence from Combeacre
23. The Evidence of a Pair of Silk Stockings
24. Elimination of Three Murderers?
25. Mrs. Lorrimer Speaks
26. The Truth
27. The Eyewitness
28. Suicide
29. Accident
30. Murder
31. Cards on the Table
About the Author
Other Books by Agatha Christie
Copyright
About the Publisher
Foreword
There is an idea prevalent that a detective story is rather like a big race—a number of starters—likely horses and jockeys. “You pays your money and you takes your choice!” The favourite is by common consent the opposite of a favourite on the race course. In other words he is likely to be a complete outsider! Spot the least likely person to have committed the crime and in nine times out of ten your task is finished.
Since I do not want my faithful readers to fling away this book in disgust, I prefer to warn them beforehand that this is not that kind of book. There are only four starters and any one of them, given the right circumstances, might have committed the crime. That knocks out forcibly the element of surprise. Nevertheless there should be, I think, an equal interest attached to four persons, each of whom has committed murder and is capable of committing further murders. They are four widely divergent types, the motive that drives each one of them to crime is peculiar to that person, and each one would employ a different method. The deduction must, therefore, be entirely psychological, but it is none the less interesting for that, because when all is said and done it is the mind of the murderer that is of supreme interest.
I may say, as an additional argument in favour of this story, that it was one of Hercule Poirot’s favourite cases. His friend, Captain Hastings, however, when Poirot described it to him, considered it very dull! I wonder with which of them my readers will agree.
One
MR. SHAITANA
“My dear M. Poirot!”
It was a soft purring voice—a voice used deliberately as an instrument—nothing impulsive or premed ............

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