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Mr. Shaitana hosts an odd bridge/dinner party and invites eight dinner guests - four detectives (including Hercule Poirot) and four people he claims have committed perfect murders. However, no one who knows what group each guest belongs to. During the party, the party host Mr. Shaitana is murdered - and he is not the last of the ensuing murders. First time I've ever read a mystery where the game of bridge is an integral part.
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Hercule Poirot is invited to a dinner party by the exotic Mr Shaitana, who promises Poirot an unusual treat - four murderers ar to be among the dinner guests. Also there are three other guests who are interested in detecting - Superintendent Battle, Colonel Race, and mystery writer Mrs Ariadne Oliver. After dinner there is bridge, and in the course of the bridge game Mr Shaitana is murdered by one of the suspected murderers, but which one? With four sleuths on the job it should be easy to find o
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I’ve read this one multiple times - most recently just a year and a half ago - and seen a play version of it and somehow STILL misremembered who did it and gasped when it was revealed. Truly the queen of misdirection!
totally not what i was expecting. but, don't ask what i was expecting. solid h.p. fare. i loved that the victim here was such a stephen tennant wannabe.
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