David Suchet on ITV · 1930s

Poirot

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Lord Edgware Dies

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Two feature-length cases after nearly four years off. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Poirot has retired to the country to grow marrows when his wealthy neighbor Roger Ackroyd is killed just after learning who was blackmailing a widow. Japp comes to help, and the killer is the village doctor, Dr. Sheppard, who seemed the most trustworthy ally. In Lord Edgware Dies, actress Jane Wilkinson asks Poirot to talk her husband, Lord Edgware, into a divorce. Soon after, he's murdered, and she has a perfect dinner-party alibi. Poirot proves she did it herself, with an impersonator standing in for her.

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Behind the scenesNearly four years off
Dumb Witness aired in March 1996. The show didn't return until January 2000, with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
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ReferenceThe best crime novel ever
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, from 1926, was voted the best crime novel ever by the UK's Crime Writers' Association in 2013.
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Behind the scenesExton writes Ackroyd
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was adapted by Clive Exton, the writer who'd been with the show since the pilot.
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