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Cards on the Table is a detective novel from Agatha Christie, the mistress of murders. It features Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver. Summary of the Book When four sleuths, Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and Ariadne Oliver are invited to play bridge with four other guests, they’re unaware that each of their guests is a murderer who walked free. However, when the host is found dead after the first rubber, the situation turns malevolent, and pits the four sleuths against the killers. However, which one of these four is responsible for their host’s demise? About Agatha Christie Agatha Christie was an English novelist best known for her murder mystery novels. She created several best-selling storylines centred around timeless characters such as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence and Parker Pyne. Some of her best known books are A Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Cards on the Table was loosely adapted into an episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver. Series Reading Order This book follows Murder in Mesopotamia. Poirot returns in Dumb Witness.