CHRISTIE, AGATHA. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926. 8vo, original gray-tan cloth; dust jacket (small chips at edges skillfully restored, tear and crease across front cover professionally repaired). First American Edition. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. "...a tour de force...and one of the true classics of the literature, turns on the ultimate revelation of the narrator as the criminal"--Howard Haycraft, Murder for Pleasure, 1968, p.130. Rare in the dust jacket. This led to Edmund Wilson's slashing attack on detective literature entitled "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"