I only gave it one star because Audible made me. And the same company has released a ton of these Agatha Christie books! Shame on the publisher, and shame on Audible for putting this "book" out. I don't recall seeing that in the book, so that must be part of someone's agenda. There are other references to the Judge wondering if there is a God. And there was no conversation between Vera and the Judge at the end of the book. Ten Little Soldiers? They were Indians, but I guess political correctness got in the way. The film premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2019. I own the unabridged narration of this story, and thought that a dramatized version would be nice, but this is a totally different story altogether. Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar is a 2019 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie becoming embroiled in a real-life murder case during a trip to an archaeological dig in Iraq following her divorce. Reader beware, some liberties have been taken which may or may not be appreciated. The mysterious Mr Shaitana, who boasts of being a 'collector of murderers', hosts a dinner party to which he invites four 'specimens' of his collection along with the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, crime novelist. I understand that some abridgement was to be expected in the interest of saving time, but to completely re-write important sections of the book? If I had wanted to purchase a different story, I wouldn't have purchased this one. Cards on the Table is an Agatha Christie detective fiction murder mystery first published in 1936.
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