Complete and unabridged, with 54 full-page plates by James McNeill Whistler, James 'Clock' Shaw and Petrus van Schendel. A village doctor tells how the widow Ferrars died, how Roger Ackroyd was stabbed in his study an hour after reading her letter, and how the retired Belgian who grows marrows next door took the case. Christie published it in 1926 and split the detective world in half: half said she had cheated, half said it was the cleverest thing ever done. The rules of the genre were rewritten around it. Fifty-four plates, from Whistler's river nocturnes to the gaslight and shopfronts of a Lancashire street, hang beside a story of quiet English places where murder goes unnoticed.