Flora is worried that Ralph Paton will be blamed for the crime since he was spotted at Fernly Park and that footprints matching a pari of shoes owned by Paton were found in the dirt outside Ackroyd's study the night before. Sheppard that they recruit Hercule Poirot, the doctor's new neighbour, to solve the murder. THe next day, Flora Ackroyd suggests to Dr. At home he receives a phonne call from Fernly Park saying that Ackroyd was murdered. Sheppard leaves Fernly Park (Ackroyd's estate) and on the way home bumps into a stranger who asked for directions to Ackroyd's residence. Ackroyd choses not to name the blackmailer.ĭr. Ferrars which states who the blackmailer is and how she hopes Mr. At that moment, a letter arrives from the late Mrs. Ferrars killed her husband and was being blackmailed for the murder. Sheppard after dinner revealing that Mrs. Visibly distraught during dinner, Ackroyd has a private conversation with Dr. Cecil Ackroyd, his sister in law, Miss Flora Ackroyd, his niece, Geoffrey Raymond, Ackroyd's young secretary, and Major Blunt, Ackroyd's friend. Sheppard to dinner, claiming he has something important to tell him. Roger Ackroyd, the town's wealthiest citizen, was expected to marry Mrs. Ferrars commits suicide after she can't bear the guilt she feels at poisoning her husband the previous year. In the town of King's Abbott, a woman named Mrs.
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