After the release of this novel, critics literally fell on Agatha Christie, declaring her a renegade from the 'basic rules of the detective genre'. But over time, he was recognized as one of the best works of the author - and gave the world a new rule of the genre: 'the reader must suspect all the characters in the book'...At first, the murder of Esquire Roger Ackroyd did not seem mysterious to the police - everything pointed to the guilt of the stepson killed. But otherwise considers Hercule Poirot, who recently moved to these places once again deciding to retire. He begins the investigation, having around a lot of suspects - relatives and friends Esquire, each of whom was interested in his death. The story is told in the name of Dr. Sheppard, the last person to see Ackroyd alive...