Lord Edgware Dies : A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Review Any mystery writer who wants to learn how to plot should spend a few days reading Agatha Christie. Shell show you everything you want to know. (Donna Leon, international bestselling author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries ) The whole case is a triumph of Poirots special qualities. ( Times Literary Supplement (London) ) About the Author Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976.

When Lord Edgware is found murdered thepolice are baffled. His estranged actress wife wasseen visiting him just before his death andHercule Poirot himself heard her brag of herplan to “get rid” of him.

But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? It’s a case that almost proves to be too much for the great Poirot.

The stunning actress Jane Wilkinson doesn't hide the fact that she is shopping around for a wealthier husband. So it's no surprise that when her current husband is murdered, she's the prime suspect. There's only one man who can clear her name--the same man she tried to hire once befoe to get rid of her husband: Hercule Poirot. Reissue.

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer's spiteful wife, didn't do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie.When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen visiting him just before his death and Hercule Poirot himself heard her brag of her plan to “get rid” of him.But how could she have stabbed Lord Edgware in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? It's a case that almost proves to be too much for the great Poirot. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but 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 vinally granted her a divorce? Hercule Poirot, a dinner party guest of Lady Edgeware, hears her speak of her desire to get rid of her husband; and within 24 hours, Lord Edgeware is dead and Poirot is investigating his murder At a dinner party, Lady Edgware tells Hercule Poirot that she wished her husband were dead so that she could marry the Duke of Merton, and a day later Lord Edgware is found murdered Also published under the title Thirteen at Dinner.