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