Book #4 in the Hercule Poirot series—one of Agatha Christie’s most celebrated and controversial mysteries.

Roger Ackroyd was about to be married. He had a life of wealth and privilege. First he lost his fiancée – and then his life.

The day after her tragic suicide he retires upstairs to read a mysterious letter, leaving his closest friends and family to eat dinner below.

Just a few hours later he is found stabbed to death in a locked room with a weapon from his own collection.

Was he killed for money? For love? Or for something altogether more sinister?

The truth will out.
But you won’t see it coming.

Known as the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie created Hercule Poirot, one of crime fiction’s most beloved detectives. Most Poirot novels are self-contained mysteries, so readers can start with almost any case. This collection brings together some of Christie’s most celebrated Poirot novels.