The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Written by Agatha Christie

Narrated by Bill Jacobson

A retired private detective, a murder, and blackmail; one small town is shaken as the truth unfolds.

A man, stabbed to death in his study with a weapon from his collection.

A mysterious phone call the caller denies making.

A widow facing blackmail following her husband’s death.

Something is happening in King's Abbot, England; there’s a murderer afoot.

Hercule Poirot, a retired private detective, agrees to come out of retirement and pursue the case.

Who killed Ackroyd?

Clues turn up, secrets unfold, and a twisted tale reveals itself. No one can be trusted when everyone is a suspect.

Can Poirot learn the truth and find a killer before they kill again? Or will the layers of this case bury him in a landslide?

With a twist ending you won’t see coming, this mystery will keep you turning pages until the very end!

Scroll up and buy your copy now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Agatha Christie
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669632061

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She died in 1976, after a prolific career spanning six decades.

Reviews for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

[Christian T. Edwards · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I honestly cannot handle how brilliant this book is. At first, I actually thought it was boring. But by the end, I had become so intrigued that I immediately listened to the whole thing through again and have been madly researching clues. This is a work of literary genius, and the performance is wonderful too, particularly the narration of the doctor’s conversations with his sister. I definitely recommend.

[Essra Masoud · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Don’t read this version. It has many missing pages and not to mention the mediocre narration!

[Beth · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The story is , of course, unassailable. It’s just such a shame that the narrator mispronounces almost every French word (and Poirot understandably uses more than the average number of these), that there’s no attempt at a French accent for Poirot, and that even a few ENGISH words are mispronounced! For example, “row”, a minor argument, is mispronounced as the verb for propelling a boat through water!
I’m sure the young man is suitable for other titles, but not for those in which French or French accents are involved, nor wherein slightly archaic English words may be present.

[Isaiah English · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The book is great, but the narrator is terrible. Words are mispronounced and occasionally skipped over, but the worst is the lack of proper tone or accent. It becomes incredibly difficult to determine who is speaking since all the characters sound the same and the intonations is sometimes opposite from what it should be.

[leslie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I couldn’t finish this recording as the narrator was terrible. First of all, an American reading an English novel?? It took away all the enjoyment. I’m going to my library when the reader is Hugh Frasier, an Englishman!!