Other editions of book Lord Edgware Dies

When popular actress Jane Wilkinson, the wife of wealthy Lord Edgware, asks her husband for a divorce, he refuses. The marriage has never been happy, and Jane wants to marry another man so Lady Edgware enlists the help of Hercule Poirot to intervene on her behalf. But when Poirot meets with Lord Edgware he finds him completely agreeable to a divorce and says he has sent a letter to his wife to settle the matter. Jane insists she never received the letter, and is thrilled by this news.That very evening, Lord Edgware is killed, and several witnesses testify that Jane was present at the home at the time of the murder. Yet twelve other reliable witnesses can attest to the fact that she was with them at a dinner party that evening and could not possibly have killed her husband.There's some speculation that a visiting American actress who has been regaling audiences with her spot-on impersonations of Jane Wilkinson might have had a hand in the murder. But she's discovered the next morning in her flat -- dead from a drug overdose.

An Agatha Christie mystery story. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

Curtain-time for a Killer. Life was a turbulent romantic drama for beautiful actress Jane Wilkinson. But now Satan seemed to be writing the script. The actress's aristocratic husband lay brutally slain, Jane was cast in the unwanted role of star suspect, and the only person to whom she could turn for help was the one least likely to believe her innocence- the inimitable Hercule Poirot himself. Never has Poirot had a more beguiling client or a more bewildering puzzle as in this case where corpses littered the sinister scene and new murder waited ever-eager in the wings...