Hercule Poirot is happily retired in the picturesque village of King's Abbott even if in the last year, he has been unable to grow the perfect marrow. When his friend and local industrialist Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study, Poirot is reunited with his old friend Chief Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. Poirot is convinced that Ackroyd's death must somehow be connecte...