Author | Agatha Christie |
---|---|
Cover artist | Ellen Edwards |
Language | English |
Series | Hercule Poirot |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | William Collins, Sons[1] |
Publication date | 1926[1] |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 312[1] |
Preceded by | The Murder on the Links |
Followed by | The Big Four |
Text | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd online |
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a detective novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective. The novel was published in the UK in June 1926 by William Collins, Sons,[2] having previously been serialised as Who Killed Ackroyd? between July and September 1925 in the London Evening News. An American edition by Dodd, Mead and Company followed in 1926.[3]
The novel was well received from its first publication,[4][5] and has been called Christie's masterpiece.[6] In 2013, the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever.[7] It is one of Christie's best-known[8][9] and most controversial novels,[10][11][12] its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre. Howard Haycraft included it in his list of the most influential crime novels ever written.[13]
Observer1926
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Scotsman1926
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Barnard1990
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).CWA
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).CWA1990
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).MWA1995
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Times1926
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).NYT
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Goddard2018
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Collins
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).