Characters in Lord Edgware Dies

Hercule Poirot

The Belgian detective whose faith in order, method, and the telling small detail unravels a case built on appearances.

Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Big Four, Mystery of the Blue Train, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder in Three Acts

Captain Arthur Hastings

Poirot's loyal friend and the novel's narrator, whose plain-spoken impressions frame the investigation.

Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murder on the Links, Poirot Investigates, The Big Four, Black Coffee, Peril at End House, Dumb Witness, Curtain

Inspector Japp

The Scotland Yard inspector who works the official side of the case and trades wits with Poirot.

Also in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot Investigates, The Big Four, Black Coffee, Death in the Clouds, The Under Dog and Other Stories, Poirot's Early Cases, The Affair at the Victory Ball

Jane Wilkinson

A celebrated American stage actress, now Lady Edgware, who wants a divorce so she can marry the Duke of Merton.

Lord Edgware

A cold, widely disliked peer whose murder opens the investigation.

Carlotta Adams

A gifted young American impressionist whose uncanny stage mimicry of public figures draws Poirot's attention.

Captain Ronald Marsh

Lord Edgware's nephew, who stands to inherit the title and falls under suspicion.

Geraldine Marsh

Lord Edgware's daughter, raised under her father's chilly household.

Bryan Martin

A popular film actor and former admirer of Jane Wilkinson, drawn into the circle around the case.

Duke of Merton

The young aristocrat Jane Wilkinson hopes to marry once she is free of her husband.