gigglewigglepanda 's review for:

Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

2.0

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This one had a great premise, but the execution was not the greatest. Miss Agatha, you can do so much better!!

A guy gives a party, there are 4 guests who, supposedly, have committed a murder and gotten away with it, and 4 'detective' guests, host gets killed, whodunnit? So, obviously one of the 'killers' got nervous and killed to protect their secret. The rest of the book is the four detective characters uncovering the pasts of the 'killers' and that's where the story fall completely apart, in my opinion. By the end you realize that none of the 'killers' had anything to worry about, not a thing... Like, there's no surprise witnesses to the murders that they got away with, no surprise evidence, just the suspicion of this one eccentric man. In 3 out of the 4 'killings' there was even an official inquest at the time, which failed to uncover anything damaging. So, why would any of these characters bother to kill the guy (and commit more murders towards the end)??????? Just have dinner and leave, there, done. I just became more frustrated as the story went on and I don't see myself ever wanting to reread this one.