num_pages: 368
description: 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 his study...
language: English
title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
titlecomplete: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
characters: Dr. James Sheppard, Geoffrey Raymond (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Caroline Sheppard, Ralph Paton, Mr. Hammond, Roger Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot, Hector Blunt, Elizabeth Russell (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Flora Ackroyd, Charles Kent, Inspector Raglan, Mrs. Ferrars, Parker (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Mrs. Ackroyd
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Crime, Audiobook
ratings_count: 253929
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