The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

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This is the book which, on its publication in 1926, catapulted Agatha Christie to fame.  Once you've read it and discovered the ingenious solution, you'll understand why it caused a sensation - and if you are at all interested in the history of the crime novel, you really should read it.

Hercule Poirot has retired (as Christie admits in her autobiography, creating a character who was past retirement age at the beginning of her own career later proved to have been something of a mistake!) to the country to grow vegetable marrows.  When his neighbour Dr Sheppard is called to Fernly Park, where local country squire Roger Ackroyd has been fatally stabbed, Poirot's interest is aroused…

Wonderful. - review by Dan Fenton