Cards on the Table

A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about accepting a party invitation to view Shaitana's "private collection".

Indeed, what begins as an absorbing evening of bridge is to turn into a more dangerous game altogether.

©1936 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2003 HarperCollins Publishers

Implausible Plot, Fun Twists and Turns, Stellar Narration

Hugh Fraser does his usual excellent narration with the perfect Poirot, somehow completely believable women’s voices, and everyone else in this completely implausible yet fun mystery. My one regret is that there isn’t more Ariadne Oliver, the shambling apple-chomping mystery writer who makes her first appearance here. But a delightful use of an Audible credit — painted an entire room of my house while Poirot and amis kept me company.

Great Story, Glitches Throughout

I really enjoy when Hugh Fraser narrates these stories! He always does a great job! Just in terms of information-there were glitches throughout the story, kind of like "skips" in the narrative. If those can be fixed, the narration will run smoothly. :)

Clever

This book combined cleverness with wit. Great characters and lots of turns along the way to the end . I am hooked and will read more by this famous author !

Cards on the Table

This was a fun mystery that was professionally read by Hugh Fraser. Fraser played Hastings in the BBC series.

Absolutely brilliant and amazingly narrated!

A well written story and very well narrated. Hugh Fraser's different accents for the different characters' was absolutely entertaining. I could not put it down and finished it in just after a day! And that was because of work. :)

A Masterpiece

I loved every minute of this Audible book. I can't wait to hear the next Agatha Christie.

can't go wrong with christie

I loved it! I somehow missed this one (I think I've read all her other books) and it was particularly good.

Kept me thinking til the end!

Masterful at her craft, Christie writes slightly outside her normal parameters with this one as Poirot himself isn’t quite always as anticipated in this suspenseful mystery. Enjoyed it very much. Definitely Christie but painted with a different brush.

Better appreciated if have knowledge of bridge

Plot twists right up to the end; never was able to narrow my suspicions properly, though I had correctly eliminated one of the 4 suspects. I think I might have appreciated this one a bit more if I knew the slightest thing about playing bridge, but as to that, I am in the dark, and so the whole motif was lacking significance for me. The wrap-up was less satisfactory than usual, even leaving me wondering a bit about Miss Meredith.
The narration wasn't quite as clean as usual either, though Fraser is still good at defining and differentiating several character voices, I was surprised by this performance- there were several instances of dialogue with mismatched character voices, enough that a few conversations were confusing and demanded re-listening.

Great story told by a great narrator

One of my favorite Agatha Christie novels, read by the ever delightful Hugh Fraser. The plot has a surprising number of twists and turns considering the limited number of possible murderers.