Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

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‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)’, is the third of Agatha Christie’s thirty-three full length Hercule Poirot novels, her famously eccentric Belgian detective, was first serialised as ‘Who Killed Ackroyd?’ between July and September 1925 in the London Evening News.

The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned.  The widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of Veronal.  Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd, the man she had planned to marry, is murdered.   It is a baffling case involving blackmail and death which taxes Hercule Poirot’s ‘little grey cells’ before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his career.