An edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Pocket Books edition, 16th printing
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An edition of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Pocket Books edition, 16th printing
  • 4.17 ·
  • 47 Ratings
  • 433 Want to read
  • 36 Currently reading
  • 108 Have read

Hercule Poirot, the Belgian gentleman with the supe- rior "little grey cells," had just begun his amazing career when this book was first published. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD established both Miss Christie and her most famous character. Edition after edi- tion rolled off the presses. The book became a landmark in its-field.

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Pocket Books
Language
English
Pages
212

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1964-07, Pocket Books
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
1927-05, Grosset & Dunlap
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Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1964-07

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
vii, 212p.
Number of pages
212

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL40281081M
Internet Archive
murderofrogerack0000agat_h1c0
OCLC/WorldCat
8502095
Goodreads
18523826

Work Description

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