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      Cards on the Table

      by Agatha Christie
      Published
      Jan 1936
      Main Genre
      Private Investigator Private Investigator
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      224
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      Series
      Colonel Race Book 2
      Also Appears In
      Superintendant Battle Book 3 Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 15

      About This Book

      DEATH HELD THE TRUMPS

      A game of bridge in which all four players were successful murderers . . . a corpse that sat by the fireplace while the game went on . . . a score card that might contain the only clue to a cunning killer .. .

      And Hercule Poirot was forced to put his reputation on the line in the most bizarre case of his career--an incredible battle of wits with a master of evil, out to make a grand slam of death....

      Series Placement

      Book 2
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      Also Appears In
      Superintendant Battle
      Book 3
      Book 15
      🟡 Mostly Standalone

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Private Investigator

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