page_title: Lord Edgware Dies
section_title: Publication history
hierarchical_section_title: Lord Edgware Dies / Publication history
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration from The American Magazine March 1933 printing of 13 For Dinner, a novel by Agatha Christie; this is the first of six issues that serialized the novel Lord Edgware Dies under this alternate title. The illustration presents a notable early depiction of Hercule Poirot, in the only Agatha Christie novel first printed in serialized form in The American Magazine.
context_page_description: Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner. Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues of The American Magazine as 13 For Dinner.
  The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. An American actress married to Lord Edgware asks Poirot to aid her in getting a divorce from her husband. Poirot agrees to help her, meeting her husband. That evening, the actress is seen at a dinner with thirteen guests, which has an associated superstition. By the next morning Lord Edgware and another American actress are found murdered, each at their own homes. Poirot investigates.
  The novel was well received at publication, in both London and New York, noting the clue that came from the chance remark of a stranger, calling it ingenious. A later review called it clever and unusual.
context_section_description: 1933, The American Magazine, serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) as 13 For Dinner
  Illustrations by Weldon Trench
  1933, Collins Crime Club (London), September 1933, Hardcover, 256 pp
  The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6).
  1933, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), 1933, Hardcover, 305 pp
  The US edition retailed at $2.00.
  1944, Dell Books (New York), Paperback, (Dell number 60 [mapback]), 224 pp
  1948, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 685), 251 pp
  1954, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 192 pp
  1969, Greenway edition of collected works (William Collins), Hardcover
  1970, Greenway edition of collected works (Dodd Mead), Hardcover, 255 pp
  1970, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 380 pp; ISBN 0-85456-479-9
  2007, Poirot Facsimile Edition (Facsimile of 1933 UK first edition), 5 February 2007, Hardcover, 256 pp; ISBN 0-00-724022-8
caption: Weldon Trench illustrated the first appearance of the novel in The American Magazine (March 1933)
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