TY - BOOK AU - Christie,Agatha TI - The murder of Roger Ackroyd AV - PR PY - 2022/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Private investigators -- England -- Fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction KW - Belgians -- England -- Fiction KW - Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106001974036&view=1up&seq=21&skin=2021 UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69087 ER -