Voted the best crime novel ever written by the Crime Writers' Association: " B reathless reading from first to the unexpected last." — The Observer The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing incident, and now, despite his retirement in a previously peaceful English village, he must return to work and find out who killed Roger Ackroyd—and how his demise may be connected to the dark secrets and tragic events surrounding Ackroyd's late fiancée, who died only the day before . . . From the legendary novelist whose mysteries have sold more than two billion copies, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd remains one of Agatha Christie's most popular works, renowned for its twist ending.