The murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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"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.)
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| Author | Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 |
|---|---|
| Title | The murder of Roger Ackroyd |
| Original Publication | United States: Grosset & Dunlap,1926. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd |
| Credits | Emmanuel Ackerman, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 86.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Private investigators -- England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories |
| Subject | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction |
| Subject | Belgians -- England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 69087 |
| Release Date | Oct 2, 2022 |
| Last Update | Nov 19, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 20825 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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