Lord Edgware Dies

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Lord Edgware Dies (published in 1933), also known as Thirteen at Dinner, is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Jane Wilkinson, an actress, is suspected of murdering her husband, the fourth Baron Edgware, so that she can marry another man. At the time of his murder, she is attending a dinner party with friends, but a witness places her at the scene of the crime. Jane turns to Poirot for help.

What is the role of Carlotta Adams, the accomplished actress who has so successfully imitated Jane on stage? How does the perversion of late lamented Lord Edgware come into picture? Does the nephew have any hand in this? Poirot has never been baffled before as he is here and a chance remark of a passerby shows him the way.

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Film versions

One movie, Lord Edgware Dies (1934) and two television movies (in 1985 and 2000) have been made from this book. Respectively, Austin Trevor, Peter Ustinov and David Suchet played Poirot.

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