The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Edition: Berkley edition (7)
Series: Hercule Poirot (4)
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 2000-03
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780425173893
Copyright date: 1954
First sentence: MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.
Description: In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion—and dreadful gossip. There are rumors she murdered her first husband, rumors that she was being blackmailed, rumor that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd, who was stabbed to death in his study. And there are rumors that his neighbor, Hercule Poirot, doesn't have a clue. Setting up the traditional rules of mystery only to shatter them with glee, Agatha Christie startled fans with this ingeniously tricky whodunit, which remains one of the most famous detective novels ever written and certainly on of the most delightfully controversial. As Dorothy L. Sayers said f it, "It's the reader's business to suspect everyone." And you will.
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Notes: US/CAN