‘A classic - the book has worthily earned its fame.'Irish Independent

‘The truly startling denouement is uncommonly original.'Books

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much.

He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her - and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.

Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was.But Ackroyd was dead before he'd finished reading it - stabbed through the neck where he sat in his study...

1 Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table 9

2 Who's Who in King's Abbot 17

3 The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows 29

4 Dinner at FerNy 45

5 Murder 67

6 The Tunisian Dagger 85

7 I Learn My Neighbour's Profession 97

8 Inspector Raglan is Confident 117

9 The Goldfish Pond 133

10 The Parlourmaid 147

11 Poirot Pays a Call 167

12 Round the Table 179

13 The Goose Quill 193

14 Mrs Ackroyd 203

15 Geoffrey Raymond 219

16 An Evening at Mah Jong 233

17 Parker 247

18 Charles Kent 265

19 Flora Ackroyd 275

20 Miss Russell 289

21 The Paragraph in the Paper 303

22 Ursula's Story 313

23 Poirot's Little Reunion 325

24 Ralph Paton's Story 343

25 The Whole Truth 349

26 And Nothing But The Truth 359

27 Apologia 365