The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The sleuthing work begins when Hercule Poirot is called out of retirement by the brutal murder of his friend and neighbor, Roger Ackroyd.
Voted the best crime novel ever written by the British Crime Writers’ Association, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is widely considered Agatha Christie’s masterpiece and one of the most influential crime novels of all time. A cornerstone of crime fiction, the story contains one of the most celebrated plot twists in crime writing history. This Warbler Classics edition includes a biographical note.
Agatha Christie is the world’s bestselling mystery writer. Her much-beloved Hercule Poirot features in more than forty short stories and twenty-two novels. Over the course of more than half a century “The Queen of Mystery” wrote eighty crime novels and short story collections, nineteen plays, and several poetry collections. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in the English language and another billion in a hundred other languages.
“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd makes breathless reading from first to the unexpected last.” —The Observer
“The tale may be recommended as one of the cleverest and most original of its kind.” —The Scotsman
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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 1890–1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020, as well as six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot consists of forty-six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
