The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever.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. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death…

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To Punkie

who likes an orthodox detective story, murder,

inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!

Contents

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1 Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table

2 Who’s Who in King’s Abbot

3 The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows

4 Dinner at Fernly

5 Murder

6 The Tunisian Dagger

7 I Learn My Neighbour’s Profession

8 Inspector Raglan is Confident

9 The Goldfish Pond

10 The Parlourmaid

11 Poirot Pays a Call

12 Round the Table

13 The Goose Quill

14 Mrs Ackroyd

15 Geoffrey Raymond

16 An Evening at Mah Jong

17 Parker

18 Charles Kent

19 Flora Ackroyd

20 Miss Russell

21 The Paragraph in the Paper