The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King-s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal.

Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd-the man she had planned to marry-is murdered. It is Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King-s Abbot is stunned.

First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd-the man she had planned to marry-is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot-s -little grey cells- before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.