CHRISTIE, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. New York, 1926. 8o. Original pictorial tan cloth (tight copy); dust jacket (close inspection of the verso reveals some expert restoration at spine ends and the closing of a triangular tear to front panel, but still an attractive copy); cloth folding case. Rare in the jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, "...one of the true classics of the literature, turns on the ultimate revelation of the narrator as the criminal". -- Murder for Pleasure, 1968. This unconventional solution provoked Edmund Wilson to react: "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"