Ferrars announces she will name her blackmailer and asks Ackroyd to seek revenge on her blackmailer. At that moment, Ackroyd’s secretary Parker arrives with the evening mail, which contains a letter from the late Mrs. She revealed all of this to Ackroyd before taking her life because of the emotional and financial strain she was under.Īlthough she didn’t tell him who the blackmailer was, he had a feeling she left a message for him before her death. Ferrars actually kill her husband, she was being blackmailed for it. Distraught throughout the meal, Ackroyd finally has a private discussion with Dr. Cecil Ackroyd, Roger’s sister-in-law, Flora Ackroyd, his niece (who recently got engaged to Ackroyd’s stepson Ralph Paton), Geoffrey Raymond, Ackroyd’s young secretary, and Major Blunt, Ackroyd’s friend. Sheppard to dinner, claiming he has something important to tell him. Meanwhile, Roger Ackroyd, the town’s wealthiest citizen who was expected to marry Mrs. Ferrars has committed suicide with Veronal over the guilt. Ferrars poisoned her husband a year before. Sheppard’s gossip-loving sister, Caroline) believes Mrs. Ferrars, who overdosed on Veronal, a sleeping medication. James Sheppard, a physician in the town of King’s Abbott.
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