The Agatha Christie Playing Cards is a French-suited, standard 52-card pack produced by Laurence King Publishing with illustrations Ilya Milstein. The reverse side of the cards features Agatha Christie standing with Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. The faces of the cards have the card values and also illustrations of important characters in Christie's stories as well as significant artefacts such as a scarlet kimono (Murder on the Orient Express) or a Tunisian dagger (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd). The deck is also accompanied by a booklet explaining the significance of the various illustrations. Most of the illustrations have no relationship with the value of the card but Hercule Poirot is the Ace of Spades and Agatha Christie is the Joker.
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