A widow’s suicide has stirred suspicion and dreadfuI rumOrs——Of black—mail．and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd， who was stabbed to death in his study．And there are rumors that his neighbor, Hercule Poirot，doesn’t have a clue who did it Setting up the traditionaI rules of mystery only to shatter them．Christie delivers her most controversiaI detective novel ever,and it stiII startles．As Dorothy L． Sayers said，“Christie fooled you [all]...lt's the reader’S business to suspect everyone．”And you will．
1 Dr．Sheppard atthe Breakfast Table
2 Who"s Who in King"s Abbot
3 The Man Who Grew Vegetable Marrows
4 Dinner at Fernly
5 Murder
6 The Tunisian Dagger
7 I Learn My Neighbor"s Profession
8 Inspector Raglan Is Confident
9 The Goldfish．Pond
1O The Parlormaid
11 Poirot Pays a Call
12 Round the Table
13 The Goose QutU
14 Mrs．Ackroyd
15 Geoffrey Raymond
16 An Evening at Mah Jong
17 Parker
18 Charles Kent
19 FloraAckroyd
20 Miss Russell
21 The Paragraphinthe Paper
22 Ursula"s Story
23 Poirot"s Little Reunion
24 Ralph Paton"s Story
25 The Whole Truth
26 And Nothing but the Truth
27 Apologia