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. 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. Her death is believed to be an accident, until Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death in his locked study. The Murder of the wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd begins the night before with the suicide of Mrs. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals the truth: the peculiar little man is actually a detective par excellence. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. 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.Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. 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. 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. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.
He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband.
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. “Ingenious and unexpected.” – NEW YORK TIMES “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
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