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Key facts
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Cover artist
- Lambart
- Language
- English
- Series
- Hercule Poirot
- Genre
- Crime novel
- Publisher
- Collins Crime Club
- Publication date
- September 1933
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Print (hardback & paperback)
- Pages
- 256 (first edition, hardcover)
- Preceded by
- Peril at End House
- Followed by
- Murder on the Orient Express
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- Genre
- detective fiction
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Followed by
- The Hound of Death
- Follows
- The Thirteen Problems
- Official website
- www.agathachristie.com/stories/lord-edgware-dies
- Image
- American-13-for-Dinner.jpg
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- characters
- Hercule Poirot
- publication date
- 1933-00-00
- Commons category
- Lord Edgware Dies
- language of work or name
- English language
- title
- A Morte de Lord Edgware
- derivative work
- Thirteen at Dinner
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
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. By the next morning Lord Edgware and another American actress are found murdered, each at their own homes. Poirot investigates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lord Edgware Dies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.