The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a fiction.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom by William Collins , Sons and in the United States by Dodd , Mead and Company on 19 June 1926 . The short biography of Christie which is included in 21st century UK printings of her books calls it her masterpiece , although writer and critic Robert Barnard has written that he considers it a conventional Christie novel .