num_pages: 305
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. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose.However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . .
language: English
title: MURDER ROGER ACKROYD
titlecomplete: MURDER ROGER ACKROYD (Fifty Classics of Crime Fiction, 1900-1950)
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: 254227
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: Garland