Lord Edgware Dies (1933)
(in America as Thirteen at Dinner)
Blurb:
My review:
One of the best of the early books, with one of Christie's most ingenious alibis. The murder of the sadistic Lord Edgware, at first thought to have been committed by his actress wife, desperate for a divorce, until her cast-iron alibi was revealed, and of two others, including a gifted mimic, is ably detected by Poirot with the assistance of plentiful psychological clues (including a delightful one about the Fall of Troy), the identity of the murderer coming as a distinct surprise to the equally obtuse Captain Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp.