The Christie, Agatha 1890-1976 creator text utu 2022 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie is a detective novel published in 1926. When wealthy Roger Ackroyd is found stabbed in his study, the recently retired Hercule Poirot is called to investigate. The victim had recently learned the identity of a blackmailer from his fiancée, a widow who poisoned her husband. As Poirot unravels a complex web of secrets among the household guests and staff, the novel's narrator, local doctor James Sheppard, chronicles the investigation that leads to one of detective fiction's most controversial and groundbreaking conclusions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd Release date is 2022-10-02 Emmanuel Ackerman, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Originally published: United States: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 Private investigators -- England -- Fiction Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Belgians -- England -- Fiction Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction PR United States: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106001974036&view=1up&seq=21&skin=2021 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69087 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106001974036&view=1up&seq=21&skin=2021 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69087 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134610.0 69087