In chapter 7, Poirot mentions that once he found a clue, but since it was four feet long instead of four centimetres nobody would believe in it. This is probably a reference to a situation which occurred in The Murder on the Links, where Poirot found a piece of lead-piping which he concluded will be used to disfigure the victim's face so that it would be unrecognizable. Nevertheless, the artifact was described in that novel as a piece of two feet long lead-piping, not a piece of four feet. However all suspicions lead to Jane Wilkinson. Then there is the visiting mimic from the USA who is putting on a show. She is later found dead. Poirot thinks the mimic was hired to impersonate Jane Wilkinson so she would be framed for her husband's murder.

Por primera vez me he encontrado adivinando quien es el culpable, debo añadir que es la primera vez que me sucede en un libro de esta autora, así que ¡felicidades para mí! Aunque mis deducciones no le lleguen a la suela de los zapatos a Poirot, creo que si me conociera me habría felicitado por mi uso maravilloso de las células grises. At long last, they fired the guy and brought in a writer who's more true to the complexity of the enterprise. This fellow Horowitz did well enough on "Murder on the Links," but here he does a splendid job. Agatha's written clues are converted to cinematic devices. In a TeeVee world where every face much be clearly shown, we have several that are not. Ho ho, something's up. I didn't remember the MacBeth part from the book. I think that was an extra, theatrical, hint. In-Universe, Carlotta's Show Within a Show parody includes Poirot going to investigate the murder of Hitler.

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Prominent in the story are Jane Wilkinson, who like many actresses depicted in fiction, seems completely self-obsessed, and described by her friends as having no conscience at all. But despite reports of having been seen in Lord Edgware’s house at the time of the murder, she has a perfect alibi, as she was also seen attending a dinner with a dozen other guests. Captain Hastings, "Oh, don't tell me you're falling for her." Hercule Poirot, "No, no, no, Hastings, Poirot does not fall, he observes merely." A second television adaptation of Lord Edgware Dies was created in 2000, as an episode for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot on 19 February 2000. It starred David Suchet in the role of Hercule Poirot, and was produced by Carnival Films. While remaining faithful to most of the plot of the novel, it featured a number of changes. Gathering the suspects together, Poirot reveals that the killer in all three murders is Jane Wilkinson. Her motive in killing Lord Edgware is that the devout Duke of Merton would not marry a divorced woman. A widow, however, is a different matter. She recruited Adams to impersonate her at the dinner party, while she killed her husband and then killed Adams afterwards with a fatal dose of Veronal. The women met at a hotel to exchange clothing before and after the party. While waiting for Adams to return from the party, Wilkinson discovers a letter among Adams's belongings that had yet to be posted and tampers with the letter to implicate the last man it mentions for the murders. Ross was killed because he realised that Wilkinson did not attend the dinner party; her ignorance of Greek mythology gave her away, as Adams had been knowledgeable on the subject and thus talked about it while impersonating her. Hungarian: Az áruló szemüveg (The Glasses That Tell), Lord Edgware rejtélyes halála (The Mysterious Death of Lord Edgware), Lord Edgware meghal (Lord Edgware Dies)

I know they cheat at the moment of deception, which did annoy a few fans, but for me it doesn't matter, it doesn't detract from the brilliance of the episode. They could have perhaps shot it in a different way. The ending is a triumph, very dramatic.I read Christie, study her actually for her inventiveness in playing a game that is central to the future of narrative. It is truly important. Wilkinson is arrested and writes to Poirot from prison about wishing an audience for her hanging, surprisingly evincing no anger at being foiled by him - nor any remorse. Despite these disagreements, Thompson often asked Agatha how the book was progressing. In fact the Thompson couple were uniquely honoured, because Agatha Christie read the manuscript of the book aloud to them, and this was something that she only ever usually did for her family. Agatha Christie and Reginald Campbell Thompson clearly regained their mutual respect, because not only did she dedicate the novel to the Thompson couple, but a skeleton found on the dig was named “Lord Edgware”!