#6 in Crime & mystery
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- 256
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1931 +2
- On screen
- Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
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Our view
“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”, Poirot’s third outing, is a book to read for its ending. For most of its length it is a neat small-town mystery, patiently assembled; then the solution arrives, and some readers go straight back over the closing pages. That ending is the reason to pick it up and the reason to avoid reading anything about it first. Compact and tense, it suits newcomers to Christie and seasoned mystery readers alike.
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About the book
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a mystery 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, 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.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
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On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 3 times — from 1931 to 2002.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 1,049 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 88% of the weight and the score stays at 8.4 — the Crime & mystery average of 7.6 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 81 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 968 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd?
It has 256 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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