The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition

Agatha Christie

Jul 2012 · Hercule Poirot Mysteries Book 4 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Hugh Fraser

About this audiobook

Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time""

Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

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.

Ratings and reviews

My favorite Agatha Christie book so far. I have not been successful before at finding out who the murderer is in her books, and so I didn’t put as much effort into finding out, but I had my suspicions. My very first suspicion turned out to be accurate. I would recommend, if you can, writing down the names of the characters and a basic description of who they are, because they are almost introduced back-to-back, and that can be very confusing, especially if you are listening to it or think that the English names are too similar to remember. The ending was satisfying.

this was my favorite so far! I did not guess the killer! Very cleverly done!

Good audiobooks can only be listened wholly when purchased, disappointed. :-(

About the author

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.