Cards on the Table

The tycoon Shaitana, one of the richest men in England, invites Poirot to dinner and an evening of bridge, promising that his fellow-guests will include four killers who have escaped justice. Poirot accepts, and finds three others there who have an interest in detection - Superintendent Wheeler, Colonel Hughes of Military Intelligence and the crime writer Ariadne Oliver. But things take a deadly turn when Shaitana is stabbed to death.