title: Lord Edgware Dies: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
author:  Agatha Christie 
description: Any mystery writer who wants to learn how to plot should spend a few days reading Agatha Christie. Shell show you everything you want to know. (Donna Leon, international bestselling author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries)<br /><br />The whole case is a triumph of Poirots special qualities. (<i>Times Literary Supplement</i> (London))
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  ## Lord Edgware Dies
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Hercule Poirot - 8 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Agatha Christie
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Lord Edgware Dies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Dr and Mrs Campbell Thompson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter 1. A Theatrical Party
  
  
  
  
  
  The memory of the public is short. Already the intense interest and excitement
  aroused by the murder of George Alfred St Vincent Marsh, fourth Baron Edgware,
  is a thing past and forgotten. Newer sensations have taken its place.
  
  
  My friend, Hercule Poirot, was never openly mentioned in connection with the
  case. This, I may say, was entirely in accordance with his own wishes. He did
  not choose to appear in it. The credit went elsewhere – and that is how he
  wished it to be. Moreover, from Poirot’s own peculiar private point of view,
  the case was one of his failures. He always swears that it was the chance
  remark of a stranger in the street that put him on the right track.
  
  
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