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Агата Кристи
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Убийство Роджера Экройда
Copyright © 1926 Agatha Christie Limited.
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© А. Петухов, перевод на русский язык, 2022
© Издание на русском языке, оформление. ООО «Издательство «Эксмо», 2022
Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Chapter 1
Dr Sheppard at the Breakfast Table
Mrs Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September – a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of friday the 17th. There was nothing to be done. She had been dead some hours.
It was just a few minutes after nine when I reached home once more. I opened the front door with my latchkey, and purposely delayed a few moments in the hall, hanging up my hat and the light overcoat that I had deemed a wise precaution against the chill of an early autumn morning. To tell the truth, I was considerably upset and worried. I am not going to pretend that at that moment I foresaw the events of the next few weeks. I emphatically did not do so. But my instinct told me that there were stirring times ahead.