In what is considered to be one of her most controversial mysteries, Agatha Christie breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing.

The eminent Belgian detective Hercule Poirot has lost a friend to an unfortunate stabbing incident, and now, despite his retirement in a previously peaceful English village, he must return to work and find out who killed Roger Ackroyd-and how his demise may be connected to the dark secrets and tragic events surrounding Ackroyd's late fiancée, who died only the day before...