Pub Date: January 7, 2019
Dewey: 823.912
Lexile Code: 0720
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.38" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.67 lbs) 88 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Mystery and Detective | Traditional | Science Fiction | General | Thrillers | Crime | Classics | Private Investigators
Description: Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows. He is not long at this pursuit when his friend is murdered.
Review Quotes:
"A classic--the book has worthily earned its fame." (Irish Independent (Ireland))
"One of the landmarks of detective literature." (H. R. F. Keating, Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books)
"Agatha Christie had a mind like a mousetrap and taught me, in novels like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the pleasure of literary surprise." (William Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical Adventures William Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage Historical Adventures William Dietrich, New York Times bestselling author of the Ethan Gage)