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The murder of Roger Ackroyd, a Hercule Poirot mystery, Agatha Christie

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The murder of Roger Ackroyd, a Hercule Poirot mystery, Agatha Christie

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eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The murder of Roger Ackroyd

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Agatha Christie

Sub title

a Hercule Poirot mystery

Summary

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 ..

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