The story is set in the quiet English village of , where a wealthy widow, Mrs. Ferrars, commits suicide. Rumors suggest she had murdered her husband and was being blackmailed. Shortly after, her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd , is found stabbed to death in his locked study just as he was about to learn the identity of the blackmailer from a letter.
The investigation is narrated by the local physician, , who becomes the assistant to his new neighbor: the "retired" Belgian detective Hercule Poirot . Poirot, who had moved to the village to grow vegetable marrows, is drawn out of retirement to untangle a web of secrets involving Ackroyd's family and household. El Asesinato De Rogelio Ackroyd Agatha Christie...
(The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), published in 1926, is widely considered the masterpiece of Agatha Christie and a defining moment in the Golden Age of detective fiction. Voted the best crime novel of all time by the British Crime Writers’ Association , it is famous for its revolutionary narrative structure and its shocking, rule-breaking conclusion. Plot Overview The story is set in the quiet English