History YMMV / LordEdgwareDies

* HardToAdaptWork: The solution to the mystery hinges on [[spoiler:an impersonation]] that is rather difficult to pull off on-screen without being obvious. [[spoiler:The actresses playing Jane Wilkinson and Carlotta Adams have to look similar enough to each other that the audience won't guess that it was ''not'' Jane at the dinner party, but not similar enough for the resemblance to stand out and raise suspicions (the 1985 film, for instance, had Faye Dunaway play both parts). The director of the 2000 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation resorted to a cheat by showing the real Jane Wilkinson (Helen Grace) at the dinner party rather than Carlotta (albeit only for a few seconds and from an oblique angle), seriously undermining the FairPlayWhodunnit - although, to be fair, not showing her face at the dinner would have been too much of a giveaway, and it *is* presented as another character's recollection of events, rather than being shown "live".]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/DavidSuchet played Inspector Japp in ''Thirteen At Dinner''. It's fun to compare and contrast him both with Philip Jackson (Japp in the [[Series/{{Poirot}} series]]) and Creator/PeterUstinov (when Suchet plays Poirot a few years later).

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/DavidSuchet played Inspector Japp in ''Thirteen At Dinner''. It's fun to compare and contrast him both with Philip Jackson (Japp in the [[Series/{{Poirot}} series]] and Creator/PeterUstinov (when Suchet plays Poirot a few years later).

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/DavidSuchet played Inspector Japp in ''Thirteen At Dinner''. It's fun to compare and contrast him both with Philip Jackson (Japp in the [[Series/Poirot series]] and Creator/PeterUstinov (when Suchet plays Poirot a few years later).

* HoYay: In Hastings' narration, he gushes about the good looks of Bryan Martin and the butler Alton; especially the latter, whom he describes as "one of the handsomest young men I have ever seen. Tall, fair, he might have posed to a sculptor for Hermes or Apollo."

** Other Jewish characters are mostly mentioned [[GreedyJew in relation to money]] or [[SignificantSemiticNose their noses]].

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Jane Wilkinson is a GoldDigger who killed three people just so she could be considered a widow rather than an ex-wife, because the rich man she wanted to go after next wouldn't marry a divorced woman. She shows absolutely ''no'' remorse for this, considering the murders to just be another thing she has to do to make herself happy and feeling that Poirot was wrong to uncover her crimes because murder is okay when ''she'' does it.]]

* FunnyMoments: Poirot doubts that Miss Carroll could have identified Jane Wilkinson from her position at the top of the stairs, so he has Hastings stand up on the stairs and watch as Poirot and Japp cross from the front door to the library, then come down to join them. Poirot determines that Miss Carroll could not have seen the visitor's face after asking Hastings if he saw the rose Poirot was holding in his teeth. The image of this makes Japp double over with laughter.
* HardToAdaptWork: The solution to the mystery hinges on [[spoiler:an impersonation]] that is rather difficult to pull off on-screen without being obvious. [[spoiler:The actresses playing Jane Wilkinson and Carlotta Adams have to look similar enough to each other that the audience won't guess that it was ''not'' Jane at the dinner party, but not similar enough for the resemblance to stand out and raise suspicions (the 1985 film, for instance, had Faye Dunaway play both parts). The director of the 2000 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation resorted to a cheat by showing the real Jane Wilkinson (Helen Grace) at the dinner party rather than Carlotta (albeit only for a few seconds and from an oblique angle), seriously undermining the FairPlayWhodunnit - although, to be fair, not showing her face at the dinner would have been too much of a giveaway, and it *is* presented as another character's recollection of events, rather than being shown "live".]]

** Other Jewish characters are mostly mentioned [[GreedyJew in relation to money or their noses]].

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Jane, a GoldDigger who killed three people just so she could be considered a widow rather than an ex-wife, because the rich man she wanted to go after next wouldn't marry a divorced woman. She shows absolutely ''no'' remorse for this, considering the murders to just be another thing she has to do to make herself happy and feeling that Poirot was wrong to uncover her crimes because murder is okay when ''she'' does it.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Jane, a GoldDigger who killed three people just so she could be considered a widow rather than an ex-wife, because the rich man she wanted to go after next wouldn't marry a divorced woman. She shows absolutely ''no'' remorse for this, considering the murders to just be another thing she has to do to make her happy and feeling that Poirot was wrong to uncover her crimes because murder is okay when ''she'' does it.]]

* HardToAdaptWork: The solution to the mystery hinges on [[spoiler:an impersonation]] that is rather difficult to pull off on-screen without being obvious. [[spoiler:The actresses playing Jane Wilkinson and Carlotta Adams have to look similar enough to each other that the audience won't guess that it was ''not'' Jane at the dinner party, but not similar enough for the resemblance to stand out and raise suspicions (the 1985 film, for instance, had Faye Dunaway play both parts). The director of the 2000 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation resorted to a cheat by showing the real Jane Wilkinson (Helen Grace) at the dinner party rather than Carlotta (albeit only for a few seconds and from an oblique angle), seriously undermining the FairPlayWhodunnit - although, to be fair, not showing her face at the dinner would have been too much of a giveaway.]]

* ValuesDissonance: In the beginning of the novel, Hastings and Poirot throw out a casually antisemitic observation about Carlotta Adams--that although she is a nice person, as a "Jewess" her fatal flaw is love of money. Christie clearly doesn't mean this remark to show they don't like Carlotta, or to make Carlotta unsympathetic--readers are obviously supposed to [[spoiler: feel bad when she's murdered]]--which makes its offensiveness all the more jarring. These days, no character you're supposed to ''like'' would repeat a nasty stereotype like that, at least not without learning better, and you're not likely to see a Jewish woman described with that particular word unless a character is actively trying to insult her.

* HardToAdaptWork: The solution to the mystery hinges on [[spoiler:an impersonation]] that is rather difficult to pull off on-screen without being obvious. [[spoiler:The actresses playing Jane Wilkinson and Carlotta Adams have to look similar enough to each other that the audience won't guess that it was ''not'' Jane at the dinner party, but not similar enough for the resemblance to stand out and raise suspicions (the 1985 film, for instance, had Faye Dunaway play both parts). The director of the 2000 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation resorted to a cheat by showing the real Jane Wilkinson (Helen Grace) at the dinner party rather than Carlotta (albeit only for a few seconds and from an oblique angle), seriously undermining the FairPlayWhodunnit. To be fair, they probably couldn't have gotten away with just showing the back of her at the dinner, because that was already done for Jane when she was approaching and entering Lord Edgware's house to kill him and it would have looked too suspicious.]]

* HardToAdaptWork: The solution to the mystery hinges on [[spoiler:an impersonation]] that is rather difficult to pull off on-screen without being obvious. [[spoiler:The actresses playing Jane Wilkinson and Carlotta Adams have to look similar enough that the audience won't guess that it was ''not'' Jane at the dinner party, but not too similar to the point where their resemblance to each other won't be too striking in itself (the 1985 film had Faye Dunaway play both parts). The director of the 2000 ''Series/{{Poirot}}'' adaptation resorted to cheating by showing the real Jane Wilkinson (Helen Grace) at the dinner party rather than Carlotta (albeit only for a few seconds and from an oblique angle), seriously undermining the FairPlayWhodunnit. To be fair, they probably couldn't have gotten away with just showing the back of her at the dinner, because that was already done for Jane when she was approaching and entering Lord Edgware's house to kill him and it would have looked too suspicious.]]