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Editor's Note
Synopsis
Book Details
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Christie at her very best – a tightly plotted tale of secrets and suspicion, in which every character has something to hide and nothing is quite as it seems. With Monsieur Poirot on the case, the truth cannot remain hidden for long.
Production Details
Three-quarter bound in blocked cloth with a printed and blocked textured paper front coverDimensions
9 inches × 5¾ inches (22.9 × 14.6 cm)Font
Typeset in Bell with Kabel as displayPages
264Author
Agatha ChristieIllustrated by
Owen GentIllustration
Frontispiece and 7 full-colour illustrationsPublication Date
05/05/2026Printing
First PrintingABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Owen Gent is an award-winning illustrator and artist living and working in Bristol in the South West of England. Owen's work can be found in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Washington Post, on the cover of books by Bill Bryson, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, on posters for major film releases and in his own illustrated and authored children's books. Both traditional painting and digital techniques combine in Owen's work to create an organic yet contemporary approach to storytelling, which is an integral part to everything that he does. Owen is the winner of a World Illustration Award and has received accolades from 3x3, D&AD, and the V&A amongst others. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926; Folio 2019, 2026) is Owen's first book for The Folio Society which has been a dream client of his since graduating from Falmouth University in Cornwall in 2013.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Owen Gent is an award-winning illustrator and artist living and working in Bristol in the South West of England. Owen's work can be found in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Washington Post, on the cover of books by Bill Bryson, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, on posters for major film releases and in his own illustrated and authored children's books. Both traditional painting and digital techniques combine in Owen's work to create an organic yet contemporary approach to storytelling, which is an integral part to everything that he does. Owen is the winner of a World Illustration Award and has received accolades from 3x3, D&AD, and the V&A amongst others. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926; Folio 2019, 2026) is Owen's first book for The Folio Society which has been a dream client of his since graduating from Falmouth University in Cornwall in 2013.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Owen Gent is an award-winning illustrator and artist living and working in Bristol in the South West of England. Owen's work can be found in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Washington Post, on the cover of books by Bill Bryson, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, on posters for major film releases and in his own illustrated and authored children's books. Both traditional painting and digital techniques combine in Owen's work to create an organic yet contemporary approach to storytelling, which is an integral part to everything that he does. Owen is the winner of a World Illustration Award and has received accolades from 3x3, D&AD, and the V&A amongst others. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926; Folio 2019, 2026) is Owen's first book for The Folio Society which has been a dream client of his since graduating from Falmouth University in Cornwall in 2013.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Owen Gent is an award-winning illustrator and artist living and working in Bristol in the South West of England. Owen's work can be found in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Washington Post, on the cover of books by Bill Bryson, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, on posters for major film releases and in his own illustrated and authored children's books. Both traditional painting and digital techniques combine in Owen's work to create an organic yet contemporary approach to storytelling, which is an integral part to everything that he does. Owen is the winner of a World Illustration Award and has received accolades from 3x3, D&AD, and the V&A amongst others. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926; Folio 2019, 2026) is Owen's first book for The Folio Society which has been a dream client of his since graduating from Falmouth University in Cornwall in 2013.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Owen Gent is an award-winning illustrator and artist living and working in Bristol in the South West of England. Owen's work can be found in newspapers and magazines such as The New Yorker and The Washington Post, on the cover of books by Bill Bryson, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, on posters for major film releases and in his own illustrated and authored children's books. Both traditional painting and digital techniques combine in Owen's work to create an organic yet contemporary approach to storytelling, which is an integral part to everything that he does. Owen is the winner of a World Illustration Award and has received accolades from 3x3, D&AD, and the V&A amongst others. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926; Folio 2019, 2026) is Owen's first book for The Folio Society which has been a dream client of his since graduating from Falmouth University in Cornwall in 2013.
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About the Author
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and is the author of over 80 works, including detective novels and short stories, 19 plays, and six novels published under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 (Folio 2014) and introduced the world to Hercule Poirot, who would become one of the most popular fictional detectives since Sherlock Holmes (as would another of Christie’s sleuths, the amateur detective Miss Marple). In 1952 her play The Mousetrap premiered in London’s West End and has run continuously ever since. Christie’s books have sold more than two billion copies in over 100 languages (said to be outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare), and have been adapted many times for film and television. She was made a dame in 1971 and died in Oxfordshire in 1976. In 2013, she was voted the greatest crime writer of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association.