The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Poirot Series)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Masterpiece ed--------------------------------------------------Agatha Christie's most audacious crime mystery, reissued with a strikingnew cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christiefans and book lovers. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that thewoman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspectedalso that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, camethe news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Butthe evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information.Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed todeath...--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became,quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the FirstWorld War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the mostpopular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is knownthroughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold overa billion copies in the English language and another billion in over100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and shortstory collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of MaryWestmacott.