The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - by Agatha Christie (Hardcover)

About the Book

"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie's career. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her - and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose."--

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie's career.

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her - and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.

Review Quotes

One of Time Magazine's "100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time"

"The finest example of the genre ever penned" - Crime Writers' Association

"In a poll conducted by the Crime Writers' Association....Christie's 1926 novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose innovative twist-in-the-tale helped to shape the crime genre...won the accolade of best ever crime novel." - The Guardian

"In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, one of Christie's early books to feature detective Hercule Poirot, the iconic sleuth sets out to solve the mystery of who murdered his friend....Through Sheppard's perspective, Christie manipulates and outwits the reader, building to an ending that feels earned in 2023 and was utterly shocking when the novel came out in 1926. It's a twist that inspired countless books that followed--and makes Ackroyd, which the British Crime Writers Association voted the best crime novel of all time in 2013, so influential. Christie was well ahead of her time with this masterclass in unreliable narration." - Time Magazine

"This story...is in the tradition of Poe's analytical tales and the Sherlock Holmes stories. The author does not devote her talents to the creation of thrills and shocks, but to the orderly solution of a single murder, conventional at that, instead....Miss Christie is not only an expert technician and a remarkably good story-teller, but she knows, as well, just the right number of hints to offer as to the real murderer. In the present case his identity is made all the more baffling through the author's technical cleverness in selecting the part he is to play in the story." - The New York Times Book Review