Lord Edgware Dies audiobook

It's probably safe to say you already know Lord Edgware doesn't make it to the end of the book.Who killed him is another matter entirely. This one is a great example of Agatha Christie at her finest when it comes to moving things around on the page, and fooling everyone as to who did what when, and why.There were also some great clues in this one that are a lot of fun to watch Poirot decode. It starts with an obvious suspect, Edgware's estranged wife. Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce so that she can marry another man, and the doomed Lord has refused to give it to her. When she runs into Poirot and Hastings at a show, she begs him to visit Lord Edgware and convince him to let her go. Later during dinner, she laughingly and loudly announces that if that doesn't work, she'll just drive up to his front door, go inside, and kill him herself.So when her husband ends up dead in exactly the way she described, and a woman who looked like her was the last person seen entering the house? Naturally, Japp thinks it's all sewn up.Unfortunately, the lady in question had attended a dinner party at the last minute, which has given her a rock-solid alibi. So. If it wasn't Jane, who killed him? And why did they try to make it look like she did it?This is one that I've personally read again and again, and I'd argue that most Christie fans would say this is a classic Poirot story. It's also a must-read for anyone who is interested in seeing why she's the Queen of Mystery.Highly Recommended.

A book devoid of genius levels of narration but with the customary gusto of Agatha Christie is still a solid entry in the Hercule Poirot series. What enhanced the reading experience was the system of chapter allocation. Christie varies her ways of indenting her story from book to book. But this time the chapters were short, with titles of their own. I liked that.There was no stupefying twists present but the murderer...well I don't want to spoil the fun for you. Altogether the translators keep on changing but the quality remains there or thereabouts.

En este nuevo caso tenemos a un Poirot algo paternalista, en demasía prejuicioso y lleno de estereotipos de género, solo para que al final la mente maestra detrás de los crímenes se cague en sus muertos (disculpen el vocabulario) con más inteligencia de la que él creía. Y sí, sin mentir eso fue lo que más me encantó. Este es el segundo libro que demuestra que Poirot no es un ser perfecto y que las cosas al principio no le saldrán como él siempre espera.En cuanto a la identidad del asesin@ no pude deducirla ni mucho menos atiné a adivinarla. De hecho, fue la última persona que se me pasó por la mente, así que también caí en la trampa; me fui por otros rumbos y hasta creí que habían más implicados en el asunto. Tuve algunas hipótesis muy idas de la olla y otras no tantas, pero al final nada de nada. Otra vez fallé con mis células grises, cosa que sí comparto con el pobre Hastings; fiel compañero de Poirot.

Maybe 4.5.I really thoroughly enjoyed this one – one of my favourites so far.

So, as the title says, Lord Edgeware dies. His wife tells everyone she’s going to kill him and how. But when he does get killed she has an air tight alibi, even though she was seen at the scene of the crime. It’s up to Poirot to find the true murderer. I don’t think I’ve read a Poirot book before where he says, “I was wrong!” so many times. This one stumped him for quite awhile.

** spoiler alert ** Sacré! It took me only 2 days to literally devour this book. I most certainly didn't saw that coming, I never could guessed who was the murderer, Agatha did good job!

I mostly listened to this mystery. I had an opportunity to get the audible book, and figured, Why not? I usually get lost with all the accents, but here it was a rather simple follow, very much like an old-time radio drama. Even while doing something else, there were times I was pulled away from my real-world responsibilities mesmerized by the murder mystery. Hercule Poirot is our hero who engages the "grey cells" way too much. He was so obnoxious to the point where you say, "Can someone please just slap that old man?" (I'm not advocating elder abuse; I live with my senior father, and would never even consider such a heinous thing, but they have a tendency to ramble.) Lord Edgeware is not very well-liked so the number of people with cause to murder is ample. Led by his wife, who wants to become his ex-wife, his nephew in financial straits, servants feeling abused, the list is long. We learn of actors and actresses, in and out of make-up, and pince-nez. Overall, a good, slow-burn story that provides the type of plot gymnastics that Christie mastered. Hence, she continues to remain queen.