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Lord Edgware Dies (Poirot)

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Books in Lord Edgware's study: the memoirs of Casanova, a book about the Comte de Sade, and a book on mediaeval tortures Chief Inspector Japp too, is also on the scene, as the officer in change of the murder case – or cases, I should say – as there will be three murders in total. I did like this new approach of bringing out mistaken "little ideas" of Poirot in to light. One feels that this brilliant detective is after all human and do make mistakes too, and not a superhuman. Again, I don’t expect Poirot to chase a suspect, leaping across London rooftops in a single bound or beat a knife wielding thug into a bloody pulp or hang out at the hotel pool, drinking Boilermakers and ogling the honeys, but in this volume, our Belgian detective is more inert than usual. John Moffatt starred as Poirot in a five-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.

Subverted with Jane Wilkinson, who in the book is described as a blatantly selfish individual who shamelessly brags about wanting to kill her husband so that she can marry another man, and refuses to take the hint when Poirot tries to refuse her commission to "get rid" of her husband. In this adaptation, she is initially portrayed as a sympathetic victim who is forced to silently endure her husband's cruelty, and her asking for Poirot's help comes across more like a desperate plea than a callous demand. But all this is revealed to be an act after she is exposed as the killer, and her deliberate gloating of her final speech comes across as meaner-spirited than the childish amorality she exhibited in her final letter to Poirot in the original book. Poirot has planned dinner for them and Chief Inspector Japp that evening. After many years of putting down English cooking ("the English, they do not have cuisine"), Poirot serves up his own recipe of a dish he discovered in retirement - "the pudding of the steak with the kidneys." Lord Edgware Dies is another classic crime mystery novel by my all time favourite author, Dame Agatha Christie. This is the ninth novel from the Hercule Poirot series. It is a somewhat baffling case, even for the genius that is Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot is hired by Lady Edgware an American actress who wants him to arrange a divorce from her aristocratic husband. In fact it turns out that Lord Edgware has already agreed to a divorce, only for him to be murdered the same night.

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So why the two titles? It came as a surprise to me, to learn that this novel by an English author was originally published in the USA. It was entitled “Thirteen for Dinner”, and serialised in six monthly parts, between March and August 1933, in “The American Magazine”. Just a month later, in September 1933, it was published in the UK as Lord Edgware Dies, and we know it better now under that later title. But I feel there should be a warning to Agatha Christie enthusiasts, who may believe that they have stumbled on a lesser known work by the Great Dame: they are the same novel. And interestingly, both titles do actually function as a kind of spoiler, although it is not really possible to tell until the conclusion is known.

Captain Hastings, "Oh, don't tell me you're falling for her." Hercule Poirot, "No, no, no, Hastings, Poirot does not fall, he observes merely." I enjoyed this book a lot even though I could find a few plot holes in it which I will list in the spoilers section. Reccomend this book to all Agatha Christie mystery lovers.And that very same evening – that very same evening – Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.” It is obvious from the title that the characters are going to be aristocrats and those in high society. We move in these circles throughout the novel, and also into the realms of the theatre. Lord Edgware’s wife is the actress, Jane Wilkinson, and we plunge straight into the nitty-gritty of the book when, at the end of chapter one, she announces:

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