
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
About this book
“This is Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she’d have still gone down as the Queen.” –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Ingenious and unexpected.” –NEW YORK TIMES
The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now featuring a new introduction by Louise Penny, a foreword from Agatha Christie's great grandson, and exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery.
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.
However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . .
Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by James Prichard
- Introduction by Louise Penny
- 1: Dr. Sheppard at the Breakfast Table
- 2: Who’s Who in King’s Abbot
- 3: The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
- 4: Dinner at Fernly
- 5: Murder
- 6: The Tunisian Dagger
- 7: I Learn My Neighbour’s Profession
- 8: Inspector Raglan is Confident
- 9: The Goldfish Pond
- 10: The Parlourmaid
- 11: Poirot Pays a Call
- 12: Round the Table
- 13: The Goose Quill
- 14: Mrs. Ackroyd
- 15: Geoffrey Raymond
- 16: An Evening at Mah Jong
- 17: Parker
- 18: Charles Kent
- 19: Flora Ackroyd
- 20: Miss Russell
- 21: The Paragraph in the Paper
- 22: Ursula’s Story
- 23: Poirot’s Little Reunion
- 24: Ralph Paton’s Story
- 25: The Whole Truth
- 26: And Nothing But The Truth
- 27: Apologia
- Read On
- About the Author
- The Agatha Christie Collection
- Copyright
- About the Publisher