De moord op Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

English dramatist Michael Morton adapted the book into a play, Alibi, which opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1928 and successfully ran for 250 performances.

The book is the third of thirty-three full-length novels featuring her detective Hercule Poirot. The story formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of Christie’s work. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. Credits: Emmanuel Ackerman, Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.

Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976: Title: The murder of Roger Ackroyd Original Publication: United States: Grosset & Dunlap,1926. Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career. Full Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd When Written: Early 1926 Where Written: London and Oxfordshire When Published: June 1926 Literary Period: Golden Age detective fiction Genre: Mystery Novel Setting: King’s Abbot (a small village in rural England) Climax: Hercule Poirot reveals that Dr. Sheppard, he looked like a beefy local squire from a Victorian melodrama.

When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he finds that someone has planted the seeds of treachery and murder.Ĭonsidered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd breaks the rules of traditional mystery. Roger Ackroyd, the murdered man, a middle-aged and very wealthy industrialist.

De moord op Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie