Lord Edgware Dies
by Agatha Christieliterary work· published 1933
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Lord Edgware Dies is a mystery novel 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 (March–August 1933) 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.
Adaptations (3)
Lord Edgware Dies has been adapted 3 times, across film and television film, from 1934 to 2000.
Lord Edgware Dies1934 · film · 80 min · dir. Henry Edwards · IMDb ↗IMDb6.0A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Thirteen at Dinner1985 · television film · 87 min · dir. Lou Antonio · IMDb ↗IMDb6.2Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
