He invites Poirot to a dinner party to meet them. Scoffing at the idea of collecting mere artefacts, Shaitana explains that he collects only the best exhibits: criminals who have evaded justice. Mr Shaitana, a flamboyant collector, meets Hercule Poirot by chance at an art exhibition and brags about his personal crime-related collection.
A later reviewer considered the book to stand at the very top rung of her novels, while another appreciated the brilliant surprise ending. The novel was well received, the critics noting its humour, the subtlety and tightness of the writing, and the good clueing. Identifying the murderer, according to the author, depends wholly on discerning the psychology of the suspects. At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr Shaitana. The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle, with the crime writer Ariadne Oliver making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. OL471637W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.20 Pages 246 Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 643 Republisher_date 20120515101247 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120514203637 Scanner on the Table is a detective fiction novel by the English author Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. Urn:lcp:cardsontable000chri:epub:1073ad12-c8fc-4473-8a87-b3ab6f09ec1a Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier cardsontable000chri Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2k65m921 Isbn 0425105679Ġ062073737 Lccn 93178405 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL1500641M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:28:53 Associated-names Berkley Books Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) Boxid IA153101 Boxid_2 CH103201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition.
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