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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

The Ultimate Mystery Edition
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Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery – an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre forever. Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret.... Read More
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Agatha Christie’s break-out crime mystery – an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, with its devilish locked-room puzzle, that catapulted Christie to her Queen of Crime status.

The Ultimate Mystery Edition celebrating 100 years of the Queen of Crime’s best mystery

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Agatha Christie’s most daring crime mystery – an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre forever.

Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret. And then, yesterday, she killed herself.

But guilty secrets rarely stay secret. Who had been blackmailing her? Had it really driven her to suicide? Sadly, Roger Ackroyd wasn’t going to live long enough to find out...

Solving the Queen of Crime’s most twisty mystery just got even more fiendish in this gorgeous new hardback collector’s edition – with the final solution sealed in an envelope at the back of the book!

Can you crack all the clues and catch the killer before you unseal the ending?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008804664

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Contributors:

  • Prepared for publication by Collins ELT

Audience: EFL / TEFL / TESOL

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 159.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 288

About the Author

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 First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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