But when a wealthy local widow kills herself and the following day her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, is stabbed to death in his study, the intelligent, mustachioed detective is asked to find the truth about the murder. The world-renowned Belgian private detective Hercule Poirot has retired to the sleepy village of King’s Abbot. Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," this updated edition of the classic Hercule Poirot mystery features a Book Club Study Guide that dissects the surprising twist, and a selection of shareable quotes from the novel.Ĭelebrated for its astounding ending, this is the book that made Agatha Christie famous. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom.
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