![]() ![]() Plot ĭr James Sheppard, the story's narrator, lives with his unmarried sister Caroline in the English country village of King’s Abbot. Howard Haycraft included it in his list of the most influential crime novels ever written. ![]() ![]() It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre. In 2013, the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever. The novel was well-received from its first publication, and has been called Christie's masterpiece. An American edition by Dodd, Mead and Company followed in 1926. The novel was published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons, having previously been serialised as Who Killed Ackroyd? between July and September 1925 in the London Evening News. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. ![]()
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