Lola Valdez

In the short story Yellow Iris, Lola Valdez is a South American dancer.

At the time of the events in the story, she was performing at a show at the Metropole. Some four years earlier, she had been performing in New York and had been at the dinner hosted by Barton Russell where his wife Iris had died. Stephen Carter thought Lola might have been responsible for poisoning Iris. He had heard that she had  a fancy for Barton Russell. "Argentine beauties are notoriously jealous," he had said. However, Lola countered that she was not even Argentinian. She was Peruvian.

Portrayals
Lola Valdez is played by Yolanda Vazquez in the film adaptation of Yellow Iris in Series 5 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot. In the adaptation, she was an Argentinian. She had been at the dinner in Buenos Aires where Iris had died but later had to flee the country and come to London where she found another job as a dancer.