Had Lady Edgware carried out her very public threat to kill her husband? Her Ladyship - Jane Wilkinson to her friends - had gone to consult with Hercule Poirot, trying to get Poirot to intercede with Lord Edgware on her behalf and persuade him to give her a divorce. Now, Lord Edgworth was dead - stabbed - an open-and-shut case to Poirot's friend Inspector Japp, perhaps. But more than a dozen reliable (and socially prominent) witnesses could (and would) testify that Jane was with friends, far away from the murder - an unbreakable alibi. It was up to Poirot to figure out whether (and how) a suspect could be in two places at once.
In a nutshell, that's the story you'll find in Agatha Christie's Lord Edgware Dies. It's the subject of today's review on the Classic Mysteries podcast, and you're welcome to listen to the entire review by clicking here. And I suppose that the only thing more that I need to say about this 1933 Christie gem is to remind readers and listeners that we are, after all, talking about the author who is considered by many to be the queen of the Golden Age for her ability to come up with such clever plots. It’s a carefully written, teasingly misdirected book, with reasonably well-developed characters and a couple of nasty surprises. It’s still available in print and as an e-book. Put Lord Edgware Dies on your reading lists and To Be Read piles. You’ll be glad you did.