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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Cards on the Table canonical 8
Cards on the Table (play) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime novel
novel
adaptedAs television episode
author Agatha Christie
centralCrime murder
centralEvent bridge party
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Ariadne Oliver
Colonel Race
Hercule Poirot
Superintendent Battle
followedBy Murder in Mesopotamia
genre detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAlternativeClassification whodunit
hasCharacterRole Ariadne Oliver, crime writer
Colonel Race, government agent
Hercule Poirot, detective
linked to: Hercule Poirot

Superintendent Battle, police officer
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)
psychological detection
isFictionalWork true
language English
literaryMovement Golden Age detective fiction
mediaType book
narrativeFocus murder investigation
notableFor use of bridge scores as clues
originalLanguage English
originalPublisher Collins Crime Club
partOfSeries Hercule Poirot series
precededBy Death in the Clouds
protagonist Hercule Poirot
publicationDate 1936
publisher Collins Crime Club
setting London
linked to: London, England
televisionAdaptation Agatha Christie's Poirot
timePeriodOfSetting interwar period

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Death on the Nile precededBy Cards on the Table
subject linked to: Death on the Nile (novel)
Hercule Poirot appearsInWork Cards on the Table
Hercule Poirot series hasWork Cards on the Table
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller notableWork Cards on the Table
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller notableWork Cards on the Table (play)
linked to: Cards on the Table
Ariadne Oliver notableWork Cards on the Table
Ariadne Oliver appearsIn Cards on the Table
Colonel Race appearsIn Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie universe includesWork Cards on the Table