Adrianna Marino - The Murder of Rodger Ackroyd

This story by Agatha Christie was both thrilling and tastefull.

The story takes place in England where James Sheppard is the doctor for a town called King's Abbot. One night Roger Ackroyd, the town's wealthiest man, invited Dr. Sheppard for dinner. Mr. Ackroyd was well known and a kind person, but someone had been blackmailing him. He expressed his concern for the blackmail with Dr. Sheppard after dinner. After talking the doctor bid Mr. Ackroyd farewell and went home. After the doctor arrived home he recieved a call that Mr. Ackroyd was dead! Dr. Sheppard rushed back to the Ackroyd household, only to find that no such call had been made. The butler Parker and the doctor went into Roger's study just to make sure he was okay and they found his study door locked. When they knocked the door down they found Roger Ackroyd murdered with a knife in his neck.

There were many suspects for this case. The suspects included all of the maids, Parker the butler, Miss Russell the housemaid, Roger's niece Miss Flora Ackroyd, Mr. Raymond the accountant, Roger's friend Major Blunt, Roger's adopted step son Ralph Paton and a stranger that the doctor encountered shortly after leaving the Ackroyd household. Much of the speculation lay on Ralph Paton, who had gone missing and who was also Flora's fiancee. To prove her fiancee was innocent, Flora requested the help of Dr. Sheppard's next door neighbor Hercule Poirot, who was a retired private investigator. Throughout the story Poirot and Sheppard examined every suspect,motive and clue to try to prove who killed Roger Ackroyd. Just as the private investigator assumed, everyone had a secret to hide. The most thrilling part of the story was the end, when it was Dr. Sheppard who was the one that killed Roger Ackroyd.