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To Punkie
who likes an orthdox detective story, murder, inquest, and suspicion falling on everyone in turn!
First Published
- UK
- Collins, London, Jun. 1926
- London Evening News, Jul.16-Sep.16 1925 as 'Who Killed Ackroyd?'
- US
- Dodd Mead, New York, Jun. 1926
- Flynn's Detective Weekly, Jun.19-Jul.10 1926
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
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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
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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
- Alibi, 1931 (UK)
- director Leslie S.Hiscott
- writer H. Fowler Mear
- cast Austin Trevor(Poirot), Elizabeth Allan, Clare Greet, Franklin Dyall
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Agahta Christie's POIROT VII, 2000
- director Andrew Grieve
- writer Clive Exton
- cast David Suchet(Poirot), Philip Jackson(Japp), 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(Hammond)
- Neudacha Puaro, 2002 (RU/TV)
- director Sergei Ursulyak
- writer Sergei Ursulyak
- cast Olga Krasko, Sergei Makovetsky, Svetlana Nemolyayeva, Konstantin Rajkin
Link
- Official Site: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Wikipedia: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- IMDb: Alibi (1931)
- IMDb: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2000)
- IMDb: Neudacha Puaro (2002)
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