The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie

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. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study.

The fourth novel in the Hercule Poirot series (note – you don’t have to read them in order). Poirot is brilliant – he is one fictional character I would love to have lunch with.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is probably one of Christie’s best. Some say if you only read one, this is the one. The twist is ridiculously spectacular.

It is also one of Agatha Christie’s Top 10 favourite novels.

“Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.”

“Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.”

READ IT NOW: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

PUBLISHED: 1923

GENRE: Mystery

PAGES: 218

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