Voted the greatest crime novel of all time by the British Crime Writers’ Association in 2013, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie remains one of the most groundbreaking and influential works of detective fiction ever written.

In the peaceful village of King’s Abbot, tragedy strikes twice. The night after his fiancée’s suicide, wealthy widower Roger Ackroyd withdraws to his study to read a mysterious letter—one that holds secrets best left buried. By morning, he is dead, murdered in a locked room with a weapon from his own collection. Summoned out of retirement, detective Hercule Poirot finds himself in one of his most baffling cases, where every friend is a suspect and every truth hides another lie. Was Roger Ackroyd murdered for money? Love? Revenge? The truth will out… but you’ll never see it coming.

Originally published as a fifty-four-part serialization in the London Evening News from July 16 through September 16, 1925 under the title, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, the first edition was published by William Collins, Sons in June 1926. It was Agatha Christie’s first novel to be published by Collins and its monumental success changed her reputation forever, with critics like The New York Times Book Review comparing it to works by Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Observer wrote, “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd makes breathless reading from first to the unexpected last,” while The Scotsman praised it as “one of the cleverest and most original of its kind.”

With its unexpected twists and a game-changing conclusion, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a masterpiece of suspense and ingenuity that continues to captivate readers worldwide.