![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. ![]() He knew someone was blackmailing her – and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. Roger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. 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. ![]()
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