Cards on the Table

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Cards on the Table is a 1936 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, centered on a murder that occurs during a bridge party.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime novel
novel
adaptedAs television episode
author Agatha Christie NERFINISHED
centralCrime murder
centralEvent bridge party
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Ariadne Oliver NERFINISHED
Colonel Race NERFINISHED
Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
Superintendent Battle NERFINISHED
followedBy Murder in Mesopotamia NERFINISHED
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAlternativeClassification whodunit
hasCharacterRole Ariadne Oliver, crime writer
Colonel Race, government agent
Hercule Poirot, detective NERFINISHED
Superintendent Battle, police officer NERFINISHED
hasCoverArtist not publicly well documented
hasFormat hardcover
paperback
print
hasISBN various editions with different ISBNs
hasMainTheme deception
gamesmanship
the psychology of murder
hasSubject bridge (card game) NERFINISHED
psychological detection
isFictionalWork true
language English
literaryMovement Golden Age detective fiction NERFINISHED
mediaType book
narrativeFocus murder investigation
notableFor use of bridge scores as clues
originalLanguage English
originalPublisher Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED
partOfSeries Hercule Poirot series NERFINISHED
precededBy Death in the Clouds NERFINISHED
protagonist Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1936
publisher Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED
setting London, England
surface form: London
televisionAdaptation Agatha Christie's Poirot NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfSetting interwar period

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Death on the Nile (novel) precededBy Cards on the Table
subject surface form: Death on the Nile
Hercule Poirot appearsInWork Cards on the Table
Hercule Poirot series hasWork Cards on the Table