The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish the letter, he was stabbed to death!
When the widow Mrs. Ferrars commits suicide and the businessman Roger Ackroyd is murdered in the space of just a few days, the small English village King's Abbot is even more full of gossip than usual. The murder is a complete mystery to the local police. Fortunately, though, the (attemptedly) retired Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is also living in the village, and agrees to come out of retirement one last time to solve the case.
The majority of our group enjoyed this mystery book. We liked the style that Agatha Christie wrote his novel. Even though this is an older, classic book, the characters were still interesting today. The second murder victim financially supported several characters; therefore many people had a motive to kill him. Hercule Poirot (the Belgian detective) is a neighbor and ends up solving the mystery. Most of our group did not guess who the killer was. We laughed at how the British author said the drug problem at that time period was mostly in America and Canada. We discussed several words that have different meaning to a British reader than to an American reader. This book promoted good discussion.
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