The Murder of Roger Ackroyd NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) a tragic tale of nightmarish

a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival

Written in very accessible language

geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help

Bagg and Scully render Sophocles’ dramas accessible and exciting for the modern reader

Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fé "one of the few great novels of the century

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd NAACP Image Award Nominee for Fiction (2018) a tragic tale of nightmarishRoger Ackroyd was a man who knew too much. He knew the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband. He knew someone was blackmailing her and now he knew she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. Soon the evening post would let him know who the mystery blackmailer was. But Ackroyd was dead before he'd finished reading it stabbed through the neck where he sat in his study