The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: B2
Written by Agatha Christie
Narrated by Roger May
4/5
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About this audiobook
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at learners of English.
Roger Ackroyd is a man who knows too much. He knows the woman he loved poisoned her first husband. He knows someone was blackmailing her – and now he knows she killed herself.
When Roger Ackroyd is found murdered, the famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, is called in to find out who the killer is...
©2012 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the bestselling novelist of all time. The first recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, she published eighty mystery novels and many short story collections and created such iconic fictional detectives as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. She is known around the world as the Queen of Crime.
Reviews for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was one of the first mystery novels I read, almost 20 years ago, and it’s ending got me hooked on the adventures of the detective Hercule Poirot until I exhausted them.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow... Now that was a real surprise at the end!I generally like Agatha Christie novels, and have read quite a number of them, but I had never read this one yet. I really liked it, it keeps you guessing every time some new piece of evidence is found, and in the end, I still had no clue. Very skillfully done and well-written.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I do love Agatha. How does she think up her puzzles!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5the best novel of agatha Christie. she had inspired a lot of writer with her style such as JD Carr. it has to be in your library. When she discloses the murderer and the motive it is the book's crux as the reader is completely surprised. great book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I’d never read her before, despite having a lot of her books in the house as a kid (my mom is a fan), but at three for HK$90, I figured I’d take a shot. It’s pretty good – seems about what you’d expect for a Brit whodunit, but I have to say I never saw the ending coming. Good stuff, but I don’t know if I’m going to be buying her entire back catalogue any time soon.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read this years ago, and when I finished it I threw it across the room in disgust. But my book club was looking for a challenging mystery, so I suggested this. Let me just say this - unreliable narrator. Probably best example I have ever read. So I read it again, knowing the ending, just to see what sense I could make of it. The ending still made me mad!