Title: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

Chapter: 12 (Round the Table)

Summary:

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is not as well known as some other Agatha Christie novels, but it is just as thrilling and puzzling. Unusually, it is told in first person by Doctor Shepard, who ends up as Hercule Poirot's assistant as they try to solve the case. Doctor Shepard was good friends with Ackroyd. He lived in a big house called Fernly Park, in a village called King's Abbot. But one night, just after coming home from visiting Ackroyd, Shepard recieves a phone call from someone who claims to be Parker (Ackroyd's butler), telling him that Ackroyd is dead. Shepard goes over to Fernly park immediately, and asks Parker whether it was him who sent the phone call. Parker is puzzled and says it wasn't him. Together they break down the locked door to Ackroyd's study, and find him dead in his chair, a knife in his back. Flora, Roger Ackroyd's neice, is desperate to uncover the secret of her uncle's death and prove it wasn't her fiance Ralph Paton. So she asks Shepard's neighbour, Hercule Poirot, to try and solve the case.

I think this book is a real page-turner, and is incredibly written. It makes you feel uncertain, like it could be anybody, and it's fun to try and work out who you think it was.