The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (1926)

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Belgian inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English town of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure he must be a former barber. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals the truth: the peculiar little man is actually the detective par excellence. The murder of wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd begins the night before with the suicide of Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow. His death is believed to be an accident, until Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death in his locked studio. There are rumors that she poisoned her first husband, rumors that she was being blackmailed, rumors that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd, a man who knew too much, but no one is sure.
There is no shortage of suspects, all family members gain from his death, from Roger's neurotic sister-in-law, who has accumulated personal debts, to a waitress with an uncertain history who resigned from her position on the afternoon of the murder. But the police focus on Ralph Paton, Ackroyd's stepson and heir, and the person who has the most to gain from Roger's death. When detective Hercule Poirot, living quietly in King's Abbot, agrees to investigate, the case takes a completely different turn. Poirot exonerates all the original suspects and presents a completely reasoned case that the cunning and devious murderer is someone who had not been suspected at all, someone whose motive has nothing to do with money.
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Hercule Poirot (fictional character), James Sheppard, Inspector Davis, Inspector Raglan, Colonel Melrose, Roger Ackroyd, Mrs Ferrars, Cecil Ackroyd, Flora Ackroyd, Ralph Paton, Hector Blunt, Geoffrey Raymond, John Parker, Elizabeth Russell, Ursula Bourne, Charles Kent, Caroline Sheppar, Mrs Folliott, Mr Hammond, stewardessPlaces
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