Ronald calls him 'my late, unlamented uncle.' Asshole Victim: The murder victim, Lord Edgware, was an unpleasant man with sadistic tendencies.The Alibi: Both Jane and Ronald have alibis Jane was at a party while Ronald was at the opera.It also turns out to be absolutely correct. Accidental Truth: Or was it? Bryan Martin's description of Jane Wilkinson's willingness to kill is motivated by the gender-inverted Woman Scorned more than by anything else.Miss Carroll says of her boss that 'he terrorized Geraldine.' However, his treatment of Geraldine is never described in detail all that's said is he ignores her most of the time, and when he doesn't its nasty enough that she hates him and is glad he's dead.

Lord Edgware is a ruthless man who enjoys having people fear him, and his daughter has an unpleasant childhood as a result. The original novel provides examples of the following: The 1985 film adaptation has its own trope section, while tropes for the 2000 ITV adaptation are listed on the page for the TV series. The story was adapted as a film called Thirteen at Dinner in 1985, starring Peter Ustinov and Faye Dunaway, and then in 2000 as part of the seventh season of ITV's Poirot starring David Suchet. If Jane did not kill her husband, who did? However, Jane spent the whole evening at a high-profile dinner party with twelve distinguished people, after having found out from Poirot that her husband had sent her a letter granting her a divorce - a letter that she did not receive. When the fourth Baron Edgware is murdered, the primary suspect is his estranged wife, the talented actress Jane Wilkinson, who wanted to marry the Duke of Merton, and whom Lord Edgware's servants swear they saw entering his house.

A novel by Agatha Christie published in 1933, featuring Hercule Poirot.

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