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1926 mystery novel by [[Agatha Christie]]. This was the book that propelled Christie to fame, widely regarded as one of her finest, and certainly among her most notable. Even today the [[Twist Ending]] remains controversial.▼
| title = The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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| author = Agatha Christie
| central theme = Unreliable Narrative
| elevator pitch = The deaths of a weathy widow and her lover attracts the notorious detective Poirot, who finds everything very suspicious, including the people who oh so gently want to help him solve the case...
| genre = Crime novel
| franchise = Hercule Poirot
| preceded by = Poirot Investigates
| followed by = The Big Four
| publication date = June 1926
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▲'''''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd''''' is a 1926 mystery novel by [[Agatha Christie]]. This was the book that propelled Christie to fame, widely regarded as one of her finest, and certainly among her most notable. Even today the [[Twist Ending]] remains controversial.
Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow in a quiet English village, has apparently taken her own life. Local industrialist Roger Ackroyd, who was romantically involved with Mrs. Ferrars, confesses in private that his lover had admitted to him that she murdered her bullying, abusive, drunken husband with poison... and that someone had found this out, ruthlessly blackmailing her and driving her to suicide. Now, a letter in the post from Mrs. Ferrars is about to reveal all -- but before Ackroyd can learn and expose the identity of the culprit, he is found dead in his study, stabbed viciously in the neck with his own ornamental dagger. An apparently open-and-shut case uncovers a likely suspect, but the village has by chance a new resident; Monsieur [[Hercule Poirot]], the noted detective, who has retired to the countryside to grow vegetables. His legendary 'little grey cells' intrigued by the case, Poirot soon discovers that all is not as it seems...
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