The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links are also available from?Dover. Voted by the British Crime Writers? Association as the best crime novel ever written ? and said to be Christie?s favorite of her novels ? it is the third book following detective Hercule Poirot. As the clues and suspects add up, Christie masterfully weaves several possible scenarios, only to surprise readers at the end. When King?s Abbot resident?Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study, the famous Belgian detective?Hercule Poirot?is called in to help solve the mystery.
Over ninety years after its initial publication, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd still stumps readers as a methodical, detailed, and suspenseful whodunit. However, some of the ‘rules’ Knox and Van Dine list do not extend to Ruth Rendell’s A Judgement in Stone and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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.Read Or Download The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery By Agatha Christie Full Pages. 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. The murder of Roger Ackroyd / produced by Carnival Films in association with A&E Television Networks. “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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