About "Cards on the Table"
By Agatha Christie.
Mr. Shaitana is a strange and wealthy collector of snuff boxes and other objects d'art.
One evening he invites two specialists, Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard and crime novelist, Mrs Ariadne Oliver, to a dinner party to view his special collection: the other four people invited as guests at the dinner party!
As they play bridge after dinner, Shaitana is daringly murdered by someone at the party.
Battle sets out to solve the crime aided, of course, by the eager Mrs. Oliver who begins with psychological deductions from the bridge score cards.
After many red herrings, skeletons in the cupboard and more death, Battle lays his cards on the table.