The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is...is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.
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AUTOR: Agatha Christie NÁZOV: Vražda Rogera Ackroyda (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) VYDAVATEĽSTVO: Slovenský spisovateľ (Wiliam Collins, Sons) ROK VYDANIA: 2018 (1926) POČET STRÁN: 232 PREKLAD: Nina Mikušová Vražda Rogera Ackroyda z roku 1926, jeden z najslávnejších románov legendárnej spisovateľky, sa právom pokladá za jej majstrovské dielo. Jeho význam pretrváva do dnešných dní, čo[...]

Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing.

The peaceful English village of King’s Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty-four hours later, Roger Ackroyd—the man she had planned to marry—is murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and violent death, a cast that taxes Hercule Poirot’s “little grey cells” before he reaches one of the most startling conclusions of his fabled career.