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  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  AGATHA CHRISTIE® POIROT® THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD™. Copyright © 2011 Agatha Christie Limited (a Chorion company). All rights reserved. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was first published in 1926.

  THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD © 1926. Published by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  ISBN 978-0-06-207356-3

  EPub Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-176340-3

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