However with an unbreakable alibi, Poirot must work the leads and find an alternative to the most obvious candidate. Even her good friends admit that they wouldn’t put murder past her if it got her what she wanted. He is an impediment to her getting what she wants. She extremely selfish and she has an inability to see what is beyond her own needs and wants.įrom the very beginning it is made clear that she wants her husband gone. Lady Edgware has a number of admirers and detractors – she is an American actress, living in England, with the will and ambition to climb the social ladder. To purchase this book from Amazon, click here.Īs with most Agatha Christie novels, there are a number of plots and sub-plots, along with suspects presented, each with their very own motive for murder. Image sourced from Amazon sales page under the law of fair use.

It all seems clear cut to Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard, but there is a catch – Lady Edgware was attending a dinner over the other side of town, along with twelve other people at the very same time of the murder – she has an air tight alibi. Lady Edgware is seen entering the house by both the butler and the secretary around the time of his death. The following evening Lord Edgware is brutally murdered in his home. Of course, she wants to marry somebody else and she states quite openly and in front of a number of people that if he doesn’t relent soon, she will have to bump him off herself. During this meeting we find out that she has been separated from her husband for some time now, however he won’t grant her a divorce.

So much so, that she even interrupts his dinner to procure a meeting with the famous detective.

The story begins with an introduction to Lady Edgware, who is extremely anxious to meet Poirot. From the beginning, as Captain Hastings reminisces about the murder of Lord Edgware, we are told that Hercule Poirot considers this case to be one of his failures and that he only solved it due to a chance remark made by a stranger in the street. It is a Hercule Poirot mystery, written entirely from the perspective of his running mate, Captain Hastings. Agatha Christie’s, Lord Edgware Dies, was originally published in 1933.

Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie