The sleuthing work begins when Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement by the brutal murder of his friend and neighbor, Roger Ackroyd.
Voted the best crime novel ever written by the British Crime Writers’ Association, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is widely considered Agatha Christie’s masterpiece and one of the most influential crime novels of all time. A cornerstone of crime fiction, the story contains one of the most celebrated plot twists in crime writing history. This Warbler Classics edition includes a biographical note.
Table of Content
Contents
One. Dr. Sheppard at the Breakfast Table1
Two. Who’s Who in King’s Abbot6
Three. The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows13
Four. Dinner at Fernly23
Five. Murder36
Six. The Tunisian Dagger48
Seven. I Learn My Neighbour’s Profession56
Eight. Inspector Raglan Is Confident69
Nine. The Goldfish Pond79
Ten. The Parlourmaid88
Eleven. Poirot Pays a Call101
Twelve. Round the Table108
Thirteen. The Goose Quill116
Fourteen. Mrs. Ackroyd123
Fifteen. Geoffrey Raymond133
Sixteen. An Evening at Mah Jong142
Seventeen. Parker151
Eighteen. Charles Kent162
Nineteen. Flora Ackroyd168
Twenty. Miss Russell176
Twenty-One. The Paragraph in the Paper185
Twenty-Two. Ursula’s Story192
Twenty-Three. Poirot’s Little Reunion199
Twenty-Four. Ralph Paton’s Story210
Twenty-Five. The Whole Truth214
Twenty-Six. And Nothing But The Truth220
Twenty-Seven. Apologia224
About Agatha Christie 227
About the author
Agatha Christie is the world’s bestselling mystery writer. Her much-beloved Hercule Poirot features in more than forty short stories and twenty-two novels. Over the course of more than half a century ‘The Queen of Mystery’ wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages.