La muerte de Lord Edgware

agatha christie

Poirot y Hastings asisten a un espectáculo en el que Carlotta Adams realiza una perfecta imitación de personahes célebres, entre los que se destaca la famosa actriz de cine Jane Wilkinson. Casualmente se encuentran todos después en una fiesta y la famosa actriz pida a Poirot que la ayude a obtener el divorcio de su marido, lord Edgware. La gestión resulta innecesaria porque, a los pocos días, lord Edgware aparece asesinado con un estilete clavado en la nuca. Nuevas muertes dificultan la investigación. Existen varios sospechosos..., pero todos tienen una coartada perfecta.

Genres mysteryfictioncrimeclassicsaudiobookdetectivemystery thrillermurder mysterythrillerbritish literature

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 1,1933

Series

Hercule Poirot

Places

london england, paris,

This edition

Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Published: January 23, 2006 by RBA Bolsillo
ISBN: 9788478715176
ASIN: 8478715177
Language: Spanish; Castilian

Characters More characters

Jane Wilkinson (lord Edgware Dies)

A husky-voiced American film and stage actress who married a British nobleman three years ago. Now she wants out of the marriage. Her present title? Lady Edgware. Self-centred. A true star....
Detective Chief Inspector James Japp

Detective Chief Inspector James Japp (later Assistant Commissioner Japp) is a fictional character who appears in several of Agatha Christies novels featuring Hercule Poirot.Japps career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Has...
George Lord Edgware

Full name: George Alfred St. Vincent Marsh. Baron Edgware IV. The wealthy, eccentric and bad tempered husband of Jane Wilkinson. She is his second wife. Often cruel....
Carlotta Adams

A young American stage actress who is an incredible mimic. She presently has a one-woman show in London. Quiet, and charming....
Bryan Martin

An American film star who has worked frequently with Jane Wilkinson....
Geraldine Marsh

Lord Edgwares 16-year-old daughter; she loathes her father. Tall and slender. Ronald Marsh, her cousin, calls her Dina.more...

About the author

agatha christie

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサクリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)