And when the American-born impersonator/comedienne Carlotta Adams was found dead from an overdose, Poirot begins to realize that someone had hired her to appear at the Edgeware home as Jane Wilkinson. Although Jane was one of the first guests to rise from the table, she was only gone for a few minutes.

Through the article, they discover that Jane had been a guest at a dinner party on the night of her husband’s murder. However, a newspaper article catches the eyes of Poirot and Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. When both his secretary and butler claim that the actress had appeared at her husband’s house, several minutes before his death, she becomes the prime suspect. Jane’s relief at this bit of news is spoiled when Lord Edgeware is found murdered inside his study. But she claims that she has never received such a letter. Poirot surprises the actress with this information. However, both he and his friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, are surprised to learn that Lord Edgeware had already informed his estranged wife of his willingness to grant her a divorce in a letter. Although reluctant to carry out such a task, a reluctant Poirot is charmed by the actress into committing this deed. She has plans to marry her current beau, the Duke of Merton. In “LORD EDGEWARE DIES”, Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot is approached by celebrated stage actress, Jane Wilkinson aka Baroness Edgeware, to approach her rather unpleasant husband on the possibility of a divorce. The most recent was a 100 minute television adaptation that aired in 2000 on the ITV series, “AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT”. There have been at least three movie and one radio adaptations of the novel in the past seven to eight decades. The worlds of Britain’s upper-crust and artists mingled in Agatha Christie’s 1933 novel called “Lord Edgeware Dies aka Thirteen at Dinner”.

Favorite Television Productions Set in the 1900s and 1910s.

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