num_pages: 7
description: Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death…
language: English
title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
titlecomplete: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
characters: Hercule Poirot, Flora Ackroyd, Charles Kent, Mr. Hammond, Mrs. Ferrars, Geoffrey Raymond (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Inspector Raglan, Mrs. Ackroyd, Caroline Sheppard, Roger Ackroyd, Parker (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Ralph Paton, Elizabeth Russell (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Hector Blunt, Dr. James Sheppard
genres: Classics, British Literature, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 253865
places: King's Abbot, England
series: Hercule Poirot
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel of the Century, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers