De moord op Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

English dramatist Michael Morton adapted the book into a play, Alibi, which opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1928 and successfully ran for 250 performances. The story formed the basis of the earliest adaptation of Christie’s work. But Ackroyd was dead before he’d finished reading it – stabbed through the neck where he sat in the study. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie - Agatha Christie Stories Hercule Poirot Novel 1926 Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd By Agatha Christie Dramatised by Michael Bakewell When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he finds that someone has planted the seeds of treachery and murder. He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Het dorp Kings Abbot wordt opgeschrikt door twee plotselinge sterfgevallen: de dood van de mooie mevrouw Ferrars en de moord op de rijkste van het dorp, Roger Ackroyd. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. She wrote more than 70 books and 150 short stories, as well as works for stage and screen. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. AGATHA CHRISTIE (18901976) was born in Devon, England.

Known for its startling reveal, this is the book that changed Agatha Christie’s career.

When Hercule Poirot retires to the country to grow vegetable marrows, he finds that someone has planted the seeds of treachery and murder.Ĭonsidered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd breaks the rules of traditional mystery. Allan Poe (1809-1849) and two novels The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and Murder on the Orient Express (1934) written by Agatha Christie (1891-1976).

De moord op Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie