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Find Similar Books“This is Agatha Christie’s masterpiece, and if she never wrote another word, she’d have still gone down as the Queen.” –LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author “Ingenious and unexpected.” –NEW YORK TIMES The official edition of the beloved classic voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time," now featuring a new introduction by Louise Penny, a foreword from Agatha Christie's great grandson, and exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose. However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . . Not only beloved by generations of readers, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was one of Agatha Christie’s own favorite works—a brilliant whodunit that firmly established the author’s reputation as the Queen of Mystery.
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Anthony Berkeley
Berkeley plays with the reader's expectations as cleverly as the Ackroyd book does, presenting several rival solutions to one death before the final reversal. Fans of its deliberate misdirection will enjoy the same sense of a puzzle built to be argued over.
Ellery Queen
Queen lays out every clue for the reader and challenges them to solve the case before the detective does. Like Ackroyd, it is a classic whodunit where logic and careful reading of the evidence matter more than action.
Gaston LeRoux
A locked-room crime with a seemingly impossible solution, told with the tidy ingenuity that makes Ackroyd so satisfying. Readers who enjoy working out how a puzzle was done will find plenty to chew on.
Richard Osman
A retirement community becomes the setting for a murder investigation, much as the quiet village in Ackroyd draws in an unexpected detective. Its warm humour and sharp, older sleuths echo the cosy but clever tone of Christie's novel.
