Book info

• Title The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• Author Agatha Christie
• Year 1926
• Genre Mystery

Roger Ackroyd was about to be married. He had a life of wealth and privilege. First he lost his fiancée – and then his life. The day after her tragic suicide he retires upstairs to read a mysterious letter, leaving his closest friends and family to eat dinner below. Just a few hours later he is found stabbed to death in a locked room with a weapon from his own collection. Was he killed for money? For love? Or for something altogether more sinister? The truth will out. But you won’t see it coming.

Thoughts

One of Christie’s all time greats, this book features a doctor narrating the intertwined investigation of murders, suicides, blackmail, and missing fiancés. Our intrepid hero Hercule Poirot gets stuck in, although I did enjoy that sometimes we heard what the Belgian detective thought secondhand via the narrator’s sister. Her propensity to gossip was both fun and instructive. Of course the book has a great twist ending, and I didn’t see it coming even knowing there was a twist to behold.

Rating: 5 / 5