The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie's most controversial detective novel celebrates one hundred years since its first publication – in it, Hercule Poirot solves a case whose conclusion still takes your breath away… Mrs Ferrars has committed suicide. But why did she take her own life just as she was about to marry the rich and desirable Roger Ackroyd? Ackroyd invites the local doctor, James Sheppard, to dinner at his Fernly Park estate and confides in him about a secret Mrs Ferrars had been keeping, for which she was being blackmailed. After returning home, Sheppard is called back to Fernly, where he finds Ackroyd stabbed to death with a dagger…