The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

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Harper Collins, Mar 17, 2009 - Fiction - 304 pages

“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.

 

Contents

Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table
1
Whos Who in Kings Abbot
7
The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
16
Dinner at Fernly
29
Murder
46
The Tunisian Dagger
61
Learn My Neighbours Profession
71
Inspector Raglan is Confident
87
Geoffrey Raymond
167
An Evening at Mah Jong
178
Parker
189
Charles Kent
203
Flora Ackroyd
211
Miss Russell
222
The Paragraph in the Paper
234
Ursulas Story
243

The Goldfish Pond
100
The Parlourmaid
111
Poirot Pays a Call
128
Round the Table
137
The Goose Quill
147
Mrs Ackroyd
155
Poirots Little Reunion
252
Ralph Patons Story
266
The Whole Truth
271
And Nothing But The Truth
279
Apologia
283
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Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

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