Poirot reminisces about an older case in which Roger Ackroyd, the elderly, stingy millionaire disliked by many, was found murdered in cold blood - a second unnatural death in the village of King's Abbot in the past few months. Poirot comes out of retirement - he now grows cabbages in his Garden In King's Abbott- when his industrialist friend is brutally murdered a short while after a local widow who was suspected of killing her husband commits suicide.
Firstly, I must say I prefer reading the novels of Agatha Christie as the genius is in the detail and they are quite fun, and a few adaptations I have seen capture this, however this adaptation of Poirot's first adventure is well done, has great period details, presents the suspects really well, and ends with a bang -quite literally. It gets quite tense as the truth unravels to the end.
Firstly, I must say I prefer reading the novels of Agatha Christie as the genius is in the detail and they are quite fun, and a few adaptations I have seen capture this, however this adaptation of Poirot's first adventure is well done, has great period details, presents the suspects really well, and ends with a bang -quite literally. It gets quite tense as the truth unravels to the end.