Cards on the Table

I have continued my march through Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mystery novels... Cards on the Table is one that I actually had seen on DVD first, and actually the endings of the two versions are slightly different... the DVD version has a few 21st century morality issues that maybe existed during Christie's time, but that she may not have been willing to bring out so openly... however it is still a very good rendition of the book... Poirot sticks to his non-conventional interest in clues that do not seem vital to the case, but as always, ends up being able to put all of his 'cards on the table' and arrest the culprit... I don't know who authored the screen play for the DVD version, but it has some very uintriguiging twists as well that the book left out... things that I think Agatha Christie would have thought were genious in themself... I also liked the casting of Alexander Siddig (recently seen in Syriana)... a capable and mysterious actor...