An edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot Mysteries

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An edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot Mysteries

  • 4.17 ·
  • 47 Ratings
  • 434 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading
  • 108 Have read

Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals the truth: the peculiar little man is actually a detective par excellence. The Murder of the wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd begins the night before with the suicide of Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow. Her death is believed to be an accident, until Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death in his locked study. There are rumors she poisoned her first husband, rumors that she was being blackmailed, rumors that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd, a man who knew too much, but no one is sure.

There's no shortage of suspects, all the members of the household stand to gain from his death, from Roger's neurotic sister-in-law who has accumulated personal debts, to a parlormaid with an uncertain history who resigned her post the afternoon of the murder. But the police focus on Ralph Paton, Ackroyd's stepson and heir, and the person with the most to gain from Roger's death. When sleuth Hercule Poirot, who is living quietly in King's Abbot, agrees to investigate, the case takes a completely different turn. Poirot exonerates all of the original suspects, and lays out a completely reasoned case that the clever and devious murderer is someone who had not come under suspicion at all - someone whose motive has nothing to do with money.
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Cover of: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2022, Martino Fine Books
paperback in English
Cover of: 罗杰疑案
罗杰疑案
2013, Xin xing chu ban she
paperback in Chinese
Cover of: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
2011, HarperCollins Publishers
hardcover in English
Cover of: O Assassinato de Roger Ackroyd
O Assassinato de Roger Ackroyd
2005, ASA
Cover of: De moord op Roger Ackroyd
De moord op Roger Ackroyd
2000, Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthof
paperback in Dutch - Negende druk
Cover of: Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot Mysteries
Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot Mysteries
October 2000, Tandem Library
Library Binding in English
Cover of: Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
/1970, Librairie des Champs-Élysées
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Cover of: Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd
1968, Librairie des Champs-Elysees
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Cover of: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1966-11, Collins/Fontana Books
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Cover of: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1964-07, Pocket Books
Paperback in English - Pocket Books edition, 16th printing
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927-05, Grosset & Dunlap
Hardcover in English - Eighth printing

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Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September--a Thursday evening.
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