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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie · Poirot #4
1926 27 chapters 69,294 words 4 hr 37 min

Hercule Poirot has retired to the English village of King’s Abbot, determined to use his little grey cells in the growing of vegetable marrows. But when Roger Ackroyd, a local businessman and former acquaintance of Poirot’s, is murdered, the man’s niece begs Poirot to investigate in order to clear her fiancé. With Hastings having married and moved to Argentina, Poirot enlists the local doctor to be his assistant and scribe, and the two of them sift through clues to try to discern the ones that will lead them to the killer.

Agatha Christie’s two previous Poirot novels had been generally well-received, but The Murder of Roger Ackroyd made her a household name. Consistently ranked among Christie’s best works, in 2013 it was voted as the best crime novel ever written by the 600-member Crime Writers’ Association of the United Kingdom.

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Contents

  1. I Dr. Sheppard at the Breakfast Table
  2. II Who’s Who in King’s Abbot
  3. III The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
  4. IV Dinner at Fernly
  5. V Murder
  6. VI The Tunisian Dagger
  7. VII I Learn My Neighbour’s Profession
  8. VIII Inspector Raglan Is Confident
  9. IX The Goldfish Pond
  10. X The Parlour Maid
  11. XI Poirot Pays a Call
  12. XII Round the Table
  13. XIII The Goose Quill
  14. XIV Mrs. Ackroyd
  15. XV Geoffrey Raymond
  16. XVI An Evening at Mah-Jongg
  17. XVII Parker
  18. XVIII Charles Kent
  19. XIX Flora Ackroyd
  20. XX Miss Russell
  21. XXI The Paragraph in the Paper
  22. XXII Ursula’s Story
  23. XXIII Poirot’s Little Reunion
  24. XXIV Ralph Paton’s Story
  25. XXV The Whole Truth
  26. XXVI And Nothing but the Truth
  27. XXVII Apologia