Lord Edgware Dies (1934)

Actress Jane Wilkinson approaches Hercule Poirot and pleads with him to speak to her husband, Lord Edgware, who is refusing to divorce her. The next morning Lord Edgware is found murdered and witnesses tell Poirot that Jane Wilkinson was the last person to see him alive. However, Jane was at a dinner party miles away at the time with twelve other guests who will testify to her being there.

Beautifully re-packaged with stunning new cover illustrations and design that rival some of the best jackets and audio collections out there! The group as a whole stands out with an assortment of colours and gorgeous text on every spine. This is audio at it's best, read by Hugh Fraser. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had finally granted her a divorce?

This whodunit series based on Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories, is named after its star sleuth, Hercule Poirot, a famous former Belgian policeman, who settled for good in London after the war, soon so famous as an infallible private detective that he becomes a society figure in his own right. In each episode Poirot gets to solve a crime mystery -mostly murder(s)- for a paying client or otherwise catching his attention - Poirot (Agatha Christie's Poirot) è una serie televisiva britannica, prodotta originariamente dalla London Weekend Television (attualmente dalla ITV Production and Agatha Christie Ltd), trasmessa in Inghilterra a partire dall'8 gennaio del 1989 e terminata il 13 novembre 2013, Hercule Poirot è un personaggio immaginario, celebre investigatore belga, nato dalla fantasia della giallista Agatha Christie, probabilmente ispirata da Sherlock Holmes di Arthur Conan Doyle, un gendarme belga in pensione.

This collection is titled so because it does not include non-detective or non-fiction works by Agatha Christie. However, the detective and suspense novels by this author are represented here in full.