Lord Edgware Dies

Name: Lord Edgware Dies
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by Agatha Christie

Part of Hercule Poirot

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Actress Jane Wilkinson asks Poirot to persuade her estranged husband, Lord Edgware, to grant a divorce. Edgware is soon found murdered, and witnesses insist that Jane visited him on the night of his death even though she appears to have an unbreakable alibi at a dinner party.

Poirot investigates performers, aristocrats and professional impersonators in a world where public identity is deliberately manufactured. The case examines vanity, celebrity and the social freedom of the interwar stage, requiring Poirot to decide which apparent contradiction is a mistake and which has been designed to direct the police toward the wrong person.