The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (A Hercule Poirot Mystery)

xv, 304 pp. Introduction by Louise Penny, foreword by James Prichard, appendices following text include: A Letter to My Publisher; Creating Poirot; Agatha Christie on Poirot's Favourite Cases; A Hercule Poirot Reading List; A Miss Marple Reading List. Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widow's suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it.