The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

BY
AGATHA CHRISTIE

AUTHOR OF
THE SECRET OF CHIMNEYS,
THE MURDER ON THE LINKS, Etc.

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

To Punkie,
who likes an orthodox detective
story, murder, inquest, and suspicion
falling on every one in turn!

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	DR. SHEPPARD AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE	1
II	WHO’S WHO IN KING’S ABBOT	7
III	THE MAN WHO GREW VEGETABLE MARROWS	17
IV	DINNER AT FERNLY	31
V	MURDER	49
VI	THE TUNISIAN DAGGER	65
VII	I LEARN MY NEIGHBOR’S PROFESSION	75
VIII	INSPECTOR RAGLAN IS CONFIDENT	92
IX	THE GOLDFISH POND	106
X	THE PARLORMAID	118
XI	POIROT PAYS A CALL	136
XII	ROUND THE TABLE	145
XIII	THE GOOSE QUILL	156
XIV	MRS. ACKROYD	165
XV	GEOFFREY RAYMOND	178
XVI	AN EVENING AT MAH JONG	190
XVII	PARKER	202
XVIII	CHARLES KENT	218
XIX	FLORA ACKROYD	226
XX	MISS RUSSELL	238
XXI	THE PARAGRAPH IN THE PAPER	251
XXII	URSULA’S STORY	260
XXIII	POIROT’S LITTLE REUNION	269
XXIV	RALPH PATON’S STORY	284
XXV	THE WHOLE TRUTH	289
XXVI	AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH	298
XXVII	APOLOGIA	303

THE MURDER OF
ROGER ACKROYD

We’ll remember where you stopped. All chapters

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