The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Original Classic 1926 Edition)

The British author Agatha Christie (1890-1976) remains the best-selling author of all time. She published 66 detective novels and 13 short-story collections. She is also the most widely translated of all the world’s authors. Her play The Mousetrap opened in London in 1952 and has been continuously performed since (apart from a 2021 interruption due to Covid). The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, first published in 1926, is often considered to be her masterpiece. In 2013, the British Crime Writers’ Association named it the best mystery of all time. This novel is the third to feature Christie’s famous detective Hercule Poirot. Vain, charming, and brilliant, the Belgian sleuth makes his way to the English village of King’s Abbot to live a life of retirement and gardening. Poirot’s peace is disturbed when a local gentleman, Roger Ackroyd, is found murdered in his study. Clues include a vanished letter, a scrap of cambric cloth, a goose quill, and an elaborately tooled Tunisian dagger. We follow Po