The novel was well received at publication, in both London and New York, noting the clue that came from the chance remark of a stranger, calling it ingenious. By the next morning Lord Edgware and another American actress are found murdered, each at their own homes. That evening, the actress is seen at a dinner with thirteen guests, which has an associated superstition. Poirot agrees to help her, meeting her husband. An American actress married to Lord Edgware asks Poirot to aid her in getting a divorce from her husband. The novel features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp. Before its book publication, the novel was serialised in six issues (March–August 1933) of The American Magazine as 13 For Dinner. Lord Edgware Dies is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in September 1933 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year under the title of Thirteen at Dinner.
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