num_pages: 192
description: Mr Shaitana collects snuff-boxes, Egyptian antiquities and murderers. Not caught murderers ('necessarily second-rate') but the ones who got away with it. He invites Hercule Poirot round to meet his collection.Before the evening is over the collector is a corpse - stabbed to death by one of his own exhibits ...
language: English
title: Cards on the Table
titlecomplete: Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
characters: Rhoda Dawes, The butler (Cards on the Table), Colonel Race, Dr. Roberts, Stephens (Cards on the Table), Lord Byron (Cheap Shot), Hercule Poirot, Mrs. Astwell, Major Despard, Ariadne Oliver, Sergeant O'Connor, Superintendent Battle, Sven Hjerson, Mrs. Luxmore, Anne Meredith, Mr. Shaitana, Mrs. Craddock, Miss Burgess, Mrs. Eldon, Mrs. Lorrimer, Elsie Batt, Inspector Harper, Sherlock (Cards on the Table)
genres: Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Detective, Thriller, British Literature, Murder Mystery, Crime, Classics, Mystery
ratings_count: 56062
places: London, England
series: Superintendent Battle, Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Ariadne Oliver
publisher: Berkley