Premise: Agatha Christie . In 2013 , The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by 600 fellow writers of the Crime Writers ' Association . Crime fiction . Crime fiction has multiple subgenres , including detective fiction ( such as the whodunit ) , courtroom drama , hard-boiled fiction and legal thrillers . The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins , Sons and in the United States by Dodd , Mead and Company on 19 June 1926 .
Hypothesis: Agatha Christie was a crime novelist.
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