num_pages: 219
description: It's true; Hercule Poirot had been present when the famous actress Jane Wilkinson bragged of her plan to ‘get rid of’ her estranged husband, Lord Edgware.Now the 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 her thoroughly detestable husband 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 agreed to grant her a divorce?Librarian's note: the first fifteen novels in the Hercule Poirot series are 1) The Mysterious Affair at Styles, 1920; 2) The Murder on the Links, 1923; 3) The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926; 4) The Big Four, 1927; 5) The Mystery of the Blue Train, 1928; 6) Peril at End House, 1932; 7) Lord Edgware Dies, 1933; 8) Murder on the Orient Express, 1934; 9) Three Act Tragedy, 1935; 10) Death in the Clouds, 1935; 11) The A.B.C. Murders, 1936; 12) Murder in Mesopotamia, 1936; 13) Cards on the Table, 1936; 14) Dumb Witness, 1937; and 15) Death on the Nile, 1937. These are just the novels; Poirot also appears in this period in a play, Black Coffee, 1930, and two collections of short stories, Poirot Investigates, 1924, and Murder in the Mews, 1937. Each novel, play and short story has its own entry on Goodreads.
language: English
title: Lord Edgware Dies
titlecomplete: Lord Edgware Dies (Hercule Poirot, #9)
characters: The man with the gold tooth, Mr., Mrs. and Miss Rachel Dortheimer, Miss Carroll, Hercule Poirot, Alton the butler, Jobson, the taxi driver, Detective Chief Inspector James Japp, Sir Montague Corner, Madame Tussaud (Lord Edgware Dies), Charles Widburn, Dowager Duchess of Merton, Ronald Marsh, Lucie Adams, George, Lord Edgware, Carlotta Adams, The solicitor (Lord Edgware Dies), King George (Lord Edgware Dies), Benvenuto Cellini (Lord Edgware Dies), Duke of Merton, Miss Ellis (maid), Elizabeth Canning, Casanova and the Comte de Sade, Dr. Heath, Jenny Driver, Arthur Hastings, Geraldine Marsh, Jane Wilkinson (Lord Edgware Dies), The woman on the telephone, Donald Ross, Mrs. Van Dusen, Bryan Martin, Mrs. Widburn
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 47769
places: London, England, Paris
series: Hercule Poirot
publisher: Collins for the Crime Club