Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie

It is coincidence that has Poirot and Hastings seated near Jane Wilkinson, Lady Edgware, while attending a show where an American actress, Carlotta, impersonates her. Jane Wilkinson is a well-known actress and is highly amused by the impersonation. At dinner that night, Hastings and Poirot again see Jane and she invites them up to talk to her. It seems she would like to divorce her husband in order to marry a duke but her husband is not amenable being a man who enjoys causing pain in others. Jane declares that, if she cannot get a divorce, she may take a taxi and murder the man. 

When that exact thing happens, Jane Wilkinson seems like a logical choice but she was attending dinner with twelve people who are above reproach. It takes some time for Hercule Poirot to figure out the solution but, of course, he eventually does.

Fairly clued, this book is one of Christie's best. Lots of red herrings but Poirot refuses to believe them while Hastings falls for them all. 

Four stars

This book came out 1933

Follows Peril at End House

Followed by Murder on the Orient Express

Borrowed as audiobook from Libby

Opinions are my own

Reread as audiobook from Libby December 2022