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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot with Stephanie Cole and Donald Sinden.
Hercule Poirot, along with three other luminaries from the world of crime detection, is invited to dinner by the renowned London socialite Dr Shaitana. Also on the guest list are four members of what Shaitana calls his Black Museum - a collection of murderers who have each succeeded in 'getting away with it'.
After midnight, when the guests prepare to leave, they make a terrible discovery. Their host is dead in his armchair, stabbed in the chest. The four sleuths are thus faced with one murder and a quartet of likely suspects. Working both together and independently, they investigate the past of the Black Museum's finest in order to determine the most likely killer.
Poirot finds that many hindrances and distractions are thrown in his way, as he attempts to read the meaning of the cards which each suspect has placed on the table.
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Cards on the Table is not as leisurely as some of the longer adaptations, like Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express, so we don't get nice long slabs of conversation and as satisfying a sense of character and setting, but what it lacks in these areas it makes up for in pace. There is often a voiceover from Poirot with single lines of dialogue from the characters in between, so we get a great deal of information in a little time. Sometimes it seems a little hurried, but usually it works well.
Because of the simplicity of the set-up and the pace, this adaptation of Cards on the Table is very true to the book, which will please all us fans. The characters voices are also very apt - except for Major Despard who surely should have been less stuffy and more sexy. John Moffat as Poirot is brilliant though - he gets the sense of self-deprecation and fun in Poirot brilliantly. Donald Sinden as Colonel Race is a delight - not much like what you expect from reading the books, but his throaty exclamations are a hoot. 'Oh I say Poirot - he's been MURDERED!'
These BBC full cast adaptations are generally very well done and this one is one of my favourites, although it only gets 4 stars because the 5 star treatment is reserved for those longer leisurely adaptations which are just brilliant.
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