Ferrars is about to reveal all-but before Ackroyd can learn and expose the identity of the culprit, he is found dead in his study, stabbed viciously in the neck with his own ornamental dagger. Ferrars, confesses in private that his lover had admitted to him that she murdered her bullying, abusive, drunken husband with poison.and that someone had found this out, ruthlessly blackmailing her and driving her to suicide. Local industrialist Roger Ackroyd, who was romantically involved with Mrs. Ferrars, a wealthy widow in a quiet English village, has apparently taken her own life. Even today the Twist Ending remains controversial. A 1926 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was the book that propelled its author to fame, and is still widely regarded as one of her finest, and certainly among her most notable.
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