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
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.”
PUBLISHED: 1923
GENRE: Mystery
PAGES: 218
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