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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Index The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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. [1]

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen children's novels by Lemony Snicket, the pen name of American author Daniel Handler.

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Abney Hall

Abney Hall is a substantial Victorian house surrounded by a park in Cheadle, near Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the northwest of England.

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Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer.

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British mystery drama television series that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013.

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Alan Napier

Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor.

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Arthur Hastings

Captain Arthur J. M. Hastings, OBE, is a fictional character created by Agatha Christie as the companion-chronicler and best friend of the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.

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Austin Trevor

Claude Austin Trevor (7 October 1897 – 22 January 1978) was a Northern Irish actor who had a long career in film and television.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Black Coffee (play)

Black Coffee is a play by the British crime-fiction author Agatha Christie (1890–1976) which was produced initially in 1930.

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Blurb

A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a creative work.

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Booth Theatre

The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown-Manhattan, New York City.

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Braille

Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.

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Brenda Forbes

Brenda Forbes (14 January 1909 – 11 September 1996) was a British-born American actress of stage and screen.

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British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.

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Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

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Chief constable

Chief Constable is the rank used by the chief police officer of every territorial police force in the United Kingdom except for the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, as well as the chief officers of the three 'special' national police forces, the British Transport Police, Ministry of Defence Police, and Civil Nuclear Constabulary.

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Clive Brunt

Clive Charles Arthur Brunt (born 27 January 1972, Oldbury, West Midlands), is an English actor.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Crime Writers' Association

The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a writers' association in the United Kingdom.

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Cucurbita

Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, also known as cucurbits, native to the Andes and Mesoamerica.

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Daisy Beaumont

Daisy Beaumont (born 5 May 1974) is an English actress.

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David Suchet

David Suchet, (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, known for his work on British stage and television.

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Deryck Guyler

Deryck Guyler (29 April 1914 – 7 October 1999) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of officious, short-tempered middle-aged men in sitcoms such as Please Sir! and Sykes.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Diana Olsson

Diana Olsson (born 28 August 1957) is a former Swedish backstroke swimmer.

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Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

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Dr. Watson

John H. Watson, known as Dr.

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Dramatic structure

Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.

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Edna May Oliver

Edna May Oliver (born Edna May Nutter, November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Eva Twedberg

Eva Twedberg (earlier Eva Pettersson; later Eva Stuart) is a former Swedish badminton player who won women's singles at numerous international championships.

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Everett Sloane

Everett H. Sloane (October 1, 1909 – August 6, 1965) was an American character actor who worked in radio, theatre, films and television.

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Flora Montgomery

Flora Anne Selina Montgomery (born 4 January 1974) is a Northern Irish actress.

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Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

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George Coulouris

George Coulouris (1 October 1903 – 25 April 1989) was an English film and stage actor.

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Gilbert Adair

Gilbert Adair (29 December 19448 December 2011) was a Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hatchards

Hatchards is a branch of Waterstones, and claims to be the oldest bookshop in the United Kingdom, founded on Piccadilly in 1797 by John Hatchard.

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Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie.

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Herman J. Mankiewicz

Herman Jacob Mankiewicz (November 7, 1897 – March 5, 1953) was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane (1941).

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Jamie Bamber

Jamie St John Bamber Griffith (born 3 April 1973) is an English actor, known for his roles as Lee Adama in Battlestar Galactica and Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin in the ITV series Law & Order: UK.

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John Moffatt (actor)

Albert John Moffatt (24 September 1922 – 10 September 2012) was an English actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio in twenty-five productions and for a wide range of stage roles in the West End from the 1950s to the 1980s.

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John Woodvine

John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.

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Large-print

Large-print (also large-type or large-font) refers to the formatting of a book or other text document in which the typeface (or font), and sometimes the medium, are considerably larger than usual, to accommodate people who have poor vision.

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Laurence Payne

Laurence Stanley Payne (5 June 1919 – 23 February 2009) was an English actor and novelist.

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Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century

The 100 Books of the Century (Les cent livres du siècle) is a list of the one hundred best books of the 20th century, according to a poll conducted in the spring of 1999 by the French retailer Fnac and the Paris newspaper Le Monde.

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Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970).

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List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters

The children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events features a large cast of characters created by Daniel Handler by the pen-name of Lemony Snicket. The series follows the turbulent lives of the Baudelaire orphans after their parents, Bertrand and Beatrice, are killed in an arsonous structure fire and their multiple escapes from their murderous relative Count Olaf, who is after their family fortune.

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Locked-room mystery

The locked-room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime — almost always murder — is committed in circumstances under which it was seemingly impossible for the perpetrator to commit the crime or evade detection in the course of getting in and out of the crime scene.

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Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Malcolm Terris

Malcolm Terris (born 11 January 1941 in Sunderland, County Durham) is a British actor.

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Michael Bakewell

Michael Bakewell is a British television producer.

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Michael Morton (dramatist)

Michael Morton (1864 – 11 January 1931) was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.

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Miss Marple

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in 12 of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in 20 short stories.

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Olga Krasko

Olga Yuryevna Krasko is a Russian actress, born 30 November 1981 in Kharkiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine).

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Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born 12 August 1939) is an English actor and writer, best known for his role as Sio Bibble in Star Wars Episodes I to III.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Peter Craze

Peter David Craze (born 27 August 1946) is a British actor.

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Peter Gilmore

John Peter Gilmore (25 August 1931 – 3 February 2013), known as Peter Gilmore, was an English actor, known for his portrayal of Captain James Onedin in 91 episodes of the BBC television period drama The Onedin Line (1971–80), created by Cyril Abraham.

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Philip Jackson (actor)

Philip Jackson (born 18 June 1948) is an English actor, known for his many television and film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Japp in the television series Poirot and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Pierre Bayard

Pierre Bayard (born 1954) is a French author, professor of literature, psychoanalyst.

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Plot twist

A plot twist is a literary technique that introduces a radical change in the direction or expected outcome of the plot in a work of fiction.

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Pocket Books

Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.

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Prince of Wales Theatre

The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre in Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in London.

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Queen's Theatre

The Queen's Theatre is a West End theatre located in Shaftesbury Avenue on the corner of Wardour Street in the City of Westminster, London.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Ray Collins (actor)

Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television.

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Robert Barnard

Robert Barnard (23 November 1936 – 19 September 2013) was an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.

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Rosalind Bailey

Rosalind Bailey (born 1946) is a British actress, known for her portrayal of Sarah Headley (née Lytton) in the 1970s and 1980s BBC television drama When the Boat Comes In.

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Royal National Institute of Blind People

The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people in the UK with sight loss.

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Selina Cadell

Selina Jane Cadell (born 12 August 1953) is an English actress.

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Sergei Makovetsky

Sergei Vasilievich Makovetsky (Серге́й Васи́льевич Макове́цкий, born 13 June 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Susan Moody

Susan Moody (born 1940 in Oxford) is the principal nom de plume of Susan Elizabeth Horwood, an English novelist best known for her suspense novels.

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The Act of Roger Murgatroyd

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment is a whodunit novel written by Scottish novelist Gilbert Adair first published in 2006.

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The Big Four (novel)

The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 27 January 1927 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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The Campbell Playhouse (radio)

The Campbell Playhouse (1938–40) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles.

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The Evening News (London newspaper)

The Evening News, earlier styled as The Evening News, was an evening newspaper published in London from 1881 to 1980, reappearing briefly in 1987.

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The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head on 22 August 1924 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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The Mousetrap

The Mousetrap is a murder mystery play by Agatha Christie.

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The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie.

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The Mystery of the Blue Train

The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (in French Le mystère de la chambre jaune) is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Reptile Room

The Reptile Room is the second book in the children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Secret of Chimneys

The Secret of Chimneys is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in June 1925 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 24 January 1929 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.

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The Sittaford Mystery

The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title.

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The Sketch

The Sketch was a British illustrated weekly journal, which focused on high society and the aristocracy.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time

The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association.

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Tichborne case

The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Unreliable narrator

An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised.

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Vivien Heilbron

Vivien Heilbron (born 13 May 1944) is a Scottish actress.

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William Collins (publisher)

William Collins (12 October 1789–2 January 1853) was a Scottish schoolmaster, editor and publisher who founded William Collins, Sons, now part of HarperCollins.

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William Collins, Sons

William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow.

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Zelah Clarke

Zelah Clarke (born 5 April 1954) is a British actress who has mainly appeared in television productions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd

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