The murder of Roger Ackroyd

"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel published in 1926. When wealthy Roger Ackroyd is found stabbed in his study, the recently retired Hercule Poirot is called to investigate. The victim had recently learned the identity of a blackmailer from his fiancée, a widow who poisoned her husband. As Poirot unravels a complex web of secrets among the household guests and staff, the novel's narrator, local doctor James Sheppard, chronicles the investigation that leads to one of detective fiction's most controversial and groundbreaking conclusions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 86.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. Originally issued 2022-10-02. Transcribed by Emmanuel Ackerman, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.). This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69087).