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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
One. Dr. Sheppard at the Breakfast Table
Two. Who’s Who in King’s Abbot
Three. The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
Four. Dinner at Fernly
Five. Murder
Six. The Tunisian Dagger
Seven. I Learn My Neighbour’s Profession
Eight. Inspector Raglan Is Confident
Nine. The Goldfish Pond
Ten. The Parlourmaid
Eleven. Poirot Pays a Call
Twelve. Round the Table
Thirteen. The Goose Quill
Fourteen. Mrs. Ackroyd
Fifteen. Geoffrey Raymond
Sixteen. An Evening at Mah Jong
Seventeen. Parker
Eighteen. Charles Kent
Nineteen. Flora Ackroyd
Twenty. Miss Russell
Twenty-One. The Paragraph in the Paper
Twenty-Two. Ursula’s Story
Twenty-Three. Poirot’s Little Reunion
Twenty-Four. Ralph Paton’s Story
Twenty-Five. The Whole Truth
Twenty-Six. And Nothing But The Truth
Twenty-Seven. Apologia
About Agatha Christie
Circa l’autore
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.
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