The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie's landmark Mystery / Detective Fiction masterpiece. A wealthy widower is stabbed, a cryptic letter vanishes, and Hercule Poirot emerges from retirement to solve an impossible crime.

A quiet English village. A devastating betrayal. A murder that changed the history of detective fiction forever.

In the peaceful village of King's Abbot, wealthy widower Roger Ackroyd knows too much. He knows the woman he loves poisoned her brutal first husband. He knows she was being blackmailed. And now, he knows she has taken her own life to escape the torment. But the very evening he receives a fatal letter containing the blackmailer's name, Ackroyd is brutally stabbed to death in his lo...