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      • Lady Edgware, the well-known stage actress Jane Wilkinson, has a dilemma in that her husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the man to see if there is any possibility of convincing him.
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  2. 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.

    • Agatha Christie
    • 1933
  3. Feb 15, 2016 · The actress Jane Wilkinson, aka Lady Edgware, is determined to arrange a divorce from her husband, to the extent that she asks her new acquaintance Hercule Poirot to speak to him for her. He does so, as a study in human nature, but is surprised to find that Lord Edgware has no objection to the divorce at all.

  4. Feb 19, 2000 · Lord Edgware Dies: Directed by Brian Farnham. With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran. A beautiful actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of her tyrannical husband - except that she has a cast-iron alibi for the night of the crime.

    • (2.2K)
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • Brian Farnham
    • 2000-02-19
  5. In the Epilogue Letter, she says she thinks it was mean of Poirot to have her arrested for doing what she needed to do to be happy merely because that resulted in the murders of three people, and that Carlotta Adams betrayed her trust by mentioning the impersonation in a letter to her sister.

  6. 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.

  7. The glamorous Jane Wilkinson is strongly suspected of murdering her husband, the fourth Baron Edgware, so that she could re-marry. However, the actress has a perfect alibi, so Poirot and the police must begin looking for the murderer elsewhere.

  8. S07E02 Lord Edgware Dies Summary. Lady Edgware, the well-known stage actress Jane Wilkinson has a dilemma in that her husband has consistently refused to give her a divorce. She asks Hercule Poirot to visit the man and see if there is any possibility of convincing him.