![]() ![]() Howard Haycraft included it in his list of the most influential crime novels ever written. ![]() It is one of Christie’s best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre. In 2013, the British Crime Writers’ Association voted it the best crime novel ever. Soon after, Ackroyd is murdered and Poirot must come out of retirement to solve the case. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend, Roger Ackroyd, to pursue a project to perfect vegetable marrows. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00. It is the third novel to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins, Sons and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company. ![]()
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