The Murder of Roger Ackroydby Agatha Christie Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. The peaceful English village of Kings Abbot is stunned. First, the attractive widow Ferrars dies from an overdose of veronal. Not twenty four hours later, Roger Ackroydthe man she had planned to marryis murdered. It is a baffling, complex case involving blackmail, suicide, and