Hercule Poirot #4 : The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Widely regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s greatest detective novels—and her most controversial—The Murder of Roger Ackroyd changed the rules of classic mystery fiction forever.

In the quiet village of King’s Abbot, tragedy strikes when widow Mrs. Ferrars dies suddenly from an overdose. Within a day, her fiancé, wealthy Roger Ackroyd, is brutally murdered. Was it blackmail? Betrayal? Or something even darker?

Only the brilliant Hercule Poirot, with his legendary “little grey cells,” can unravel the tangled web of secrets. What follows is one of Christie’s most ingenious and shocking revelations in the history of crime fiction.

A must-read for fans of Hercule Poirot mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd remains a landmark in the world of detective novels.