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a Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
The only person who can unravel the terrible events in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Hercule Poirot. He sets about, in his usual meticulous and eccentric way, to uncover the truth.
In an English village, a young widow, Mrs Ferrars is found dead; she has taken her own life. Roger Ackroyd confides to his friend, Dr James Shepherd, who is the narrator of the book, that he was planning to marry Mrs Ferrars. But before her death he discovered that she had a dark secret; she killed her own husband and now someone is blackmailing her. Then, just as Ackroyd is about to find out the identity of the blackmailer, he's murdered.
Did you read any books in 2025 that are widely considered classics? If so, which ones and why?
...tein and Robert Woodward The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie I'm currently reading Call of the Wild by Jack London. I've been trying to read children's classics that for some reason I missed when I was growing...
-Lana_Maskus
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (12/25/2025)
I finished The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. It was the first book of hers that I've read and I'm not sure if I'll read any more. I'm currently reading Zorrie by Laird Hunt. It was a 2021 Natio...
-Lana_Maskus
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (12/18/2025)
...l. They stretch imaginations and vocabularies! Am starting the audiobook of Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov for the U. Print wise, I'm currently reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie to meet the Locked Room Mystery and the Cover with a Key or Keyhole challenges. I've never read Christie and am enjoying her. I try to choose books f...
-Lana_Maskus
What are you reading this week? And what did you think of last week’s books? (12/04/2025)
...ieve how many of these I missed out on, but am thinking that's okay as I seem to appreciate them more in my senior years. I just started listening to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. I've never read any of her books so am interested to find out how I take to her writing. I'm still reading Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera and wond...
-Lana_Maskus
Which of Agatha Christie’s mysteries have you read? Do you have a favorite, and if so, what about it do you like?
I've read many of them (and I'm a huge fan of the David Suchet series). My favorites are The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Curtain. But they are all brilliant!
-Evonne_Benedict
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Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She wrote eighty crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and several other books. Her books have sold roughly four billion copies and have been translated into 45 languages. She is the creator of the two most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre. Christie was born in Torquay, Devon in 1890. She died in 1976 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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