A beautifully produced edition of the world's greatest crime writer's
best and most influential mystery, which changed the game with an
unprecedented plot twist
With its famously shocking ending, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one
of Agatha Christie's greatest mysteries, and the book that changed her
career.
One evening the wealthy Roger Ackroyd is discovered slumped in his
armchair, a knife buried in his heart. It is the start of a murder case
that spurs the inhabitants of the sleepy English village of King's Abbot
to feverish speculation.
The local police are perplexed, but soon a recently retired Belgian
detective, Hercule Poirot, joins the investigation. The truth he
uncovers will shock even the most imaginative of the village gossips.