You can listen online to free English audiobook “Lord Edgware Dies” by Agatha Christie on our website. More importantly, one murder won’t be enough because it is a habit. Further discussions of the case bring about five questions, of which the answers are required before bringing somebody to justice.
For he will benefit from his uncle’s death. Coupled with strange occurrences and opportunity the evidence point at the Lord’s nephew later. In the meantime, the motive for money is revealed. This murder, and two others, including a gifted mimic, is ably solved by Poirot with the help of plentiful psychological clues (including a delightful one about the Fall of Troy). What makes him being murdered apart from it? Lady Edgware’s alibi puzzles Inspector Japp. Everyone thinks sadistic Lord Edgware was killed by his actress wife, desperate for a divorce,until her cast-iron alibi was revealed. When Poirot speaks about the issue to the husband, it surprises the detective that the other has had a change of mind. She has tried many times through lawyers and letters but failed. Prior to her husband’s demise, Lady Edgware enquires the sleuth to persuade the Lord to divorce her. At the same time, fourteen people at Sir Montagu Corner’s party are quite sure that the same woman has been with them. Two witnesses say his estranged wife came to see him on the night of the murder.
A few days later Lord Edgware is found dead in his house. Attending a performance by impressionist Carlotta Adams, Hercule Poirot is approached by actress Jane Wilkinson. Poirot finds his extraordinary powers of detection stretched to the limit.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. Lord Edgware was not a popular man, but every one of his suspects, from his wife to her ex-lover Bryan, from his bullied daughter to his new butler and his seemingly devoted secretary, Miss Carroll, has a water tight alibi for the night of the murder. In a murder mystery that will involve the famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, Lord Edgware Dies is narrated by Poirot’s trusted friend Captain Hastings who is every bit the polar opposite of the man with the ‘egg shaped head’. To Poirot's surprise, Edgware insists that he has already agreed to Jane's request, but within 24 hours of Poirot's visit the old man is found murdered. Hercule Poirot, the famous little detective, was enjoying a pleasant little supper party there as the guest of Lady Edgware, formerly Jane Wilkinson.
Lord Edgware, to urge him to reconsider her request for a divorce. Quite smitten by her charms, he agrees to visit her estranged husband. Show more Show less At an evening of comic impersonations by the American entertainer Carlotta Adams, Poirot is introduced to the famous actress Jane Wilkinson.
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