Ralph Paton is the police suspect and is nowhere to be found. Hercule Poirot, who is cultivating vegetable marrows next door to the Sheppards, comes out of retirement at the request of Flora Ackroyd. Parker, Sheppard, Raymond, and Blunt find Ackroyd in his study, stabbed to death with a weapon from his collection. Upon Sheppard's arrival, Parker says he never made such a call. He rushes out, telling his sister Caroline that Parker, Ackroyd's butler, has found Roger Ackroyd dead. Once home, Dr Sheppard receives a telephone call. On the walk home, Sheppard bumps into a man outside the gates, seeking directions to Fernly Park. Ackroyd receives a letter, a suicide note, in the post from Mrs Ferrars, which he plans to finish reading after Sheppard leaves. Ackroyd tells him that Mrs Ferrars had confided to him that she was being blackmailed about killing her husband. After dinner, Sheppard and Ackroyd talk in his study. Flora announces her engagement to Captain Ralph Paton, stepson of Ackroyd. Sheppard dines with Ackroyd Ackroyd's sister-in-law Mrs Cecil Ackroyd her young daughter Flora Major Blunt, a big-game hunter and Geoffrey Raymond, Ackroyd's personal secretary. He invites Dr James Sheppard to his house Fernly Park for dinner.
Roger Ackroyd, a widower who was to marry Mrs Ferrars, is distraught. The news in King's Abbot is all about the death of Mrs Ferrars, a wealthy widow who is rumoured to have murdered her husband. The short biography of Christie which is included in 21st century UK printings of her books calls it her masterpiece, although writer and critic Robert Barnard has written that he considers it a conventional Christie novel. Howard Haycraft included this novel in his list of the most influential crime novels ever written. It is one of Christie's best known and most controversial novels, its innovative twist ending having a significant impact on the genre.
The novel was initially well-received, remarked for the startling ending, and in 2013, 87 years after its release the British Crime Writers' Association voted it the best crime novel ever. Ackroyd's niece calls Poirot in to ensure that the guilt does not fall on Ackroyd's son Poirot promises to find the truth, which she accepts. He is not long at this pursuit when his friend is murdered. Poirot retires to a village near the home of a friend he met in London, Roger Ackroyd, who agrees to keep him anonymous, as he pursues his retirement project of perfecting vegetable marrows.
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