Watson” character, referring to Watson’s position in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series as the companion and chronicler of the brilliant detective. Christie admitted she got the idea for the ending from her brother-in-law, James Watts, who mused on a detective novel in which the criminal turns out to be the “Dr. The novel features one of Christie’s most beloved characters, the detective Hercule Poirot, who himself appears in 33 of Christie’s novels and 65 of her short stories.Ĭonsidered by many to be Christie’s masterpiece, the novel is nonetheless controversial for it’s stunning ending.
Poirot exonerates all of the original suspects, and lays out a completely reasoned case that the clever and devious murderer is someone who had not come under suspicion at all - someone whose motive has nothing to do with money.First published in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroydis one of the most celebrated and controversial detective novels of all time.
When sleuth Hercule Poirot, who is living quietly in King's Abbot, agrees to investigate, the case takes a completely different turn. But the police focus on Ralph Paton, Ackroyd's stepson and heir, and the person with the most to gain from Roger's death. There's no shortage of suspects, all the members of the household stand to gain from his death, from Roger's neurotic sister-in-law who has accumulated personal debts, to a parlormaid with an uncertain history who resigned her post the afternoon of the murder. There are rumors she poisoned her first husband, rumors that she was being blackmailed, rumors that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd, a man who knew too much, but no one is sure. Her death is believed to be an accident, until Roger Ackroyd is stabbed to death in his locked study.
The Murder of the wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd begins the night before with the suicide of Mrs. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals the truth: the peculiar little man is actually a detective par excellence. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot.
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