The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

London Evening News, Jul.-Sep.1925 as 'Who Killed Ackroyd?'
Collins, London, 1926
Dodd Mead, NewYork, 1926

To Punkie
who likes an orthdox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!

Plot

(from HarperCollins "The Agatha Christie Collection" cover)

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...

Contents

1. Dr Sheppard at the 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 Neighbour's Profession
8. Inspector Raglan is Confident
9. The Goldfish Pond
10. The Parlourmaid
11. Poirot Pays a Call
12. Round the Table
13. The Goose Quill
14. Mrs Ackroyd
15. Geoffrey Raymond
16. An Evening at Mah Jong
17. Parker
18. Charles Kent
19. Flora Ackroyd
20. Miss Russell
21. The Paragraph in the 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

Characters

Hercule Poirot, Roger Ackroyd, Paton, Mrs Cecil Ackroyd, Flora, Raymond, Parker, Miss Russell, Ursula, Blunt, Doctor Sheppard, Caroline Sheppard, Inspector Raglan, Inspector Davis, Hammond, Kent

Play

"Alibi", adapted by Michael Morton, 1928

at Prince of Wales's Theatre (London), 1928

in New York with the title "The Fatal Albi" in 1932

	"Alibi" London, 1928	"The Fatal Alibi" New York, 1932
Hercule Poirot	Charles Laughton
Doctor Sheppard	J.H. Roberts	Moffat Johnston
Sir Roger Ackroyd	Norman V. Norman	Lionel Pape
Mrs. Ackroyd	Lady Tree	Effie Shannon
Flora Ackroyd	Jane Welsh	Jane Wyatt
Parker	Henry Daniell	Donald Randolph
Major Blunt	Basil Loder	Kenneth Hunter
Ursula Bourne	Iris Noel	Jane Bramley
Geoffrey Raymond	Henry Forbes-Robertson	Edward Crandall
Caryl Sheppard	Gillian Lind	Helen Vinson
Ralph Paton	Cyril Nash	Lowell Gilmore
Inspector Davies	John Darwin	Lawrence Cecil
Mr. Hammond	J. Smith-Wright	Fothringham Lysons
Margot	Constance Anderson	Andree Corday

Movie & TV

[MV] Alibi, 1931(UK) B/W

[direct] Leslie S.Hiscott; [script] H.Fowler Mear

[cast] Austin Trevor(Poirot), Elizabeth Allan, Clare Greet, Franklin Dyall

[TV] The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

"Agahta Christie's POIROT VII", 2000(UK/LWT) 103min.

[direct] Andrew Grieve; [script] Clive Exton

[cast] (Series Main-starring) David Suchet(Poirot), Philip Jackson(Japp)

[cast] (Co-starring) Oliver Ford Davies(Dr. Sheppard), Selina Cadell(Caroline Sheppard), Roger Frost(Parker), Malcolm Terris(Roger Ackroyd), Nigel Cooke(Geoffrey Raymond), Daisy Beaumont(Ursula Bourne), Flora Montgomery(Flora Ackroyd), Vivien Heilbron(Mrs. Ackroyd), Gregor Truter(Inspector Davis), Jamie Bamber(Ralph Paton), Charles Early(Constable Jones), Rosalind Bailey(Mrs. Ferrars), Charles Simon (II)(Hammond), Liz Kettle(Mrs. Folliott), Graham Chinn(Landlord), Clive Brunt(Naval petty officer), Alice Hart(Mary), Philip Wrigley(Postman), Phil Atkinson(Ted)

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