num_pages: 358
description: Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation.
language: English
title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
titlecomplete: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
characters: Flora Ackroyd, Mr. Hammond, Elizabeth Russell (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Caroline Sheppard, Parker (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Roger Ackroyd, Hector Blunt, Mrs. Ferrars, Dr. James Sheppard, Inspector Raglan, Charles Kent, Geoffrey Raymond (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Ralph Paton, Mrs. Ackroyd, Hercule Poirot
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Classics, Murder Mystery, British Literature, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Audiobook
ratings_count: 253957
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: Berkley