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The book "Open Cards" (original: Cards on the Table, first published in 1936) is one of Agatha Christie's classic crime novels starring Hercule Poirot.
After dinner, the guests split into two rooms and play bridge (contract bridge). The detectives play in one room, and the suspects in the other – where Shaitana sits by the fireplace and watches them. At the end of the evening, Shaitana is found dead – stabbed with his own stiletto from his collection, and the murder occurred while everyone was in the room playing bridge. No one came out, no one saw anything suspicious – a classic “locked room” with four suspects and four top investigators. The key to the novel – according to Christie herself in the preface: the solution does not depend on physical clues or alibis, but on the psychology of the suspects. Each of them has a past with murder (different methods, different motives), and Poirot and the team must reconstruct old crimes in order to solve the new one. The bridge games serve as a metaphor and a reminder of the “open cards” – characters and secrets are gradually revealed. The novel was praised for its original premise (four detectives against four murderers), tension without violence, and deep characterization – one of Christie's "purest" and most intellectual classics.
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