Poirot actually described this exact set-up earlier that year when discussing his ideal mystery to investigate with Captain Hastings in The ABC Murders. Shaitana might have been wrong that all four have gotten away with murder, and who has the psychology to have committed this particular murder. Thus begins Hercule Poirot’s favorite case, what is widely considered to be Agatha Christie’s best locked room murder, in which he must investigate using only his “little gray cells” and “the eyes of the brain.” He must delve into his suspects’ past and psychology to figure out who has a secret crime to hide, since Mr. At the end of the evening, Poirot returns to find Mr. Shaitana seats the four murderers down for bridge in one room and the four detectives in another, returning to sleep in the chair by the fire in the room with the murderers. Shaitana sets up a dinner party to which he invites four types of sleuths and four different murderers. Only those who get away with murder without anyone else’s realizing a murder has been committed will due. In Agatha Christie’s Cards on the Table, Mr.
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