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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd full cast audiobook

by Agatha Christie · Hercule Poirot, Book 4

Released 8 October 2026 · Updated 8 October 2026 · 6h 54m · 22 voices

The story (no spoilers)

Dr. James Sheppard, the village doctor of King's Abbot, has barely returned from the death of a wealthy widow when his sister Caroline starts guessing at its cause. Mrs. Ferrars is gone, apparently from an overdose, and a year earlier her husband died too. Talk spreads through the English village faster than any physician can contain it. Then Roger Ackroyd, the widow's close friend and the richest man in the district, is found stabbed in his locked study, and the household of relatives, guests and servants falls under suspicion. Hercule Poirot, the Belgian detective, has retired to grow vegetable marrows in the neighbouring cottage, yet he cannot resist a puzzle. He recruits Sheppard as his assistant, and the two move from house to house, weighing alibis, missing money and a stranger seen near the gates. As the inspectors close in on one suspect, Poirot insists on testing every claim. Whose story holds up, and whose will not?

The cast

21 speaking roles are listed; walk-on parts are not. Each voice was designed, or chosen from our library of designed voices, to fit how the book describes the character, and it stays with them from the first chapter to the last. Portraits are illustrated impressions of each character.

Hercule Poirot
Male, about sixty years old, a Belgian retired detective living in an English village in 1926, a comfortable middle-class professional. He speaks with a Belgian French accent, rolling his r's and using foreign idiom. His voice is a light, precise tenor, slightly nasal, from a small, neat man. He speaks briskly and carefully, with sudden sharp rings, cheerful, twinkling and vain.
Dr. Sheppard
Male, about forty-five years old, an English village doctor in 1926, a middle-class professional man. He speaks with a modulated educated southern English accent. His voice is a mid-range, even baritone, dry and a little tired. He speaks in clipped, practical sentences at a measured pace, wry, discreet and mildly sceptical.
Caroline
Female, about fifty-five years old, an English spinster keeping house for her brother in a village in 1926, middle-class. She speaks with a crisp educated southern English accent. Her voice is a thin, brisk alto with an acid edge and an occasional dry cough. She speaks quickly and decisively, sharp, inquisitive, shrewd and strong-willed.
Inspector Raglan
Male, about forty years old, a local English police inspector in 1926, a lower-middle-class official. He speaks with a plain Home Counties accent. His voice is a loud, bright tenor from a stocky, confident man. He speaks eagerly and fast, in confident bursts, brisk, self-assured and quick to leap at conclusions, with a respectful tone creeping in for his betters.
Flora Ackroyd
Female, about twenty-two years old, an English young woman of a wealthy country-house family in 1926, upper-class. She speaks with a clear, refined received pronunciation. Her voice is a light, clear soprano, cool and level. She speaks at an even, unhurried pace, composed and cool in tone, poised and a little amused, with admirable self-possession.
Geoffrey Raymond
Male, about thirty years old, an English private secretary at a country house in 1926, an educated middle-class professional. He speaks with a pleasant, crisp upper-middle received pronunciation. His voice is a bright, light tenor, youthful and clear. He speaks quickly and lightly, good-humoured and debonair, imperturbable and easygoing.
Hector Blunt
Male, about fifty-two years old, an English big game hunter and gentleman visiting a country house in 1926, upper-class. He speaks with a clipped upper-class English accent. His voice is a deep, resonant bass, weathered by years outdoors, from a broad, heavy man. He speaks slowly in terse, abrupt sentences, taciturn, deliberate and reserved.
Parker
Male, about forty-eight years old, an English butler in a country house in 1926, a respectable servant of the working-middle class. He speaks with a careful, polished southern English servant's accent, aspirates sounded with effort. His voice is a soft, smooth, rather nasal light baritone. He speaks slowly and quietly, impassive, deferential and discreet, with an apologetic cough.
Mrs. Ackroyd
Female, about fifty-two years old, an English gentry widow living in a country house in 1926, upper-class. She speaks with a drawling upper-class received pronunciation. Her voice is a soft, wavering, slightly breathy soprano, with a plaintive whine. She speaks slowly with languid, trailing phrases, self-pitying, fluttery and mildly aggrieved.
Ursula Bourne
Female, about twenty-five years old, an Irish parlourmaid of impoverished gentry family in an English country house in 1926, working-class by occupation. She speaks with a soft Irish accent. Her voice is a low, gentle mezzo-soprano, steady but quiet. She speaks softly at a moderate pace, nervous under pressure, steadfast, honest and reserved.
Inspector Davis
Male, about thirty-six years old, an English police inspector in 1926, a working-middle-class official. He speaks with a flat Midlands English accent. His voice is a dull, low-mid baritone from a solid, heavy man. He speaks slowly in a flat, level monotone, stolid, glum and unexcitable, sometimes lowering his voice.
Miss Russell
Female, about forty-five years old, an English housekeeper in a country house in 1926, a self-reliant working woman of the middle class. She speaks with a precise, cool educated English accent. Her voice is a low, firm contralto, tall and handsome, with a cast-iron edge. She speaks in a low, rather hurried manner, composed, forbidding and acid.
Roger Ackroyd
Male, about fifty-seven years old, a wealthy English manufacturer and landowner in 1926, upper-middle-class gentleman farmer. He speaks with a hearty country-squire English accent. His voice is a round, full baritone, hearty and rather loud, from a stout man. He speaks briskly and warmly, bluff, genial and assertive, lowering to a monotone when troubled.
Ralph Paton
Male, about twenty-five years old, an English army captain and adopted son of a wealthy family in 1926, upper-class. He speaks with a relaxed, slangy upper-class English accent. His voice is a warm, slightly husky baritone, easy and lazy. He speaks at a loose, casual pace, charming, careless and good-natured.
Miss Ganett
Female, about fifty-eight years old, an English village spinster and newsmonger in 1926, lower-middle-class. She speaks with a fluting village-gentility English accent. Her voice is a high, thin, slightly nasal soprano, always a little out of breath. She speaks very fast in breathless rushes, significant, knowing and eager.
Colonel Carter
Male, about sixty-eight years old, a retired English army colonel living in a village in 1926, upper-middle-class. He speaks with a clipped, old-fashioned military English accent. His voice is a gravelly, rasping baritone, aged and a little wheezy. He speaks at a slow, genial pace in short colloquial phrases, hearty, good-natured and fond of tall stories.
Colonel Melrose
Male, about sixty years old, an English chief constable and country gentleman in 1926, upper-class. He speaks with a crisp, courteous received pronunciation. His voice is a bright, light baritone, clear and carrying. He speaks fast and breezily, in a louder voice, warm, courteous and brisk.
Mr. Hammond
Male, about sixty-three years old, an English family solicitor in 1926, a precise middle-class professional. He speaks with a dry, formal London educated accent. His voice is a thin, dry, somewhat reedy tenor with a small dry cough. He speaks in short, clipped little barks, precise, cautious and attentive.
Charles Kent
Male, about thirty-two years old, an Englishman in a village in southern England in 1926, a working-class labouring man of no fixed trade. He speaks in a rough London working-class accent, dropping some aitches. His voice is a hoarse, mid-low baritone with a nasal edge, lean and wiry build. He speaks in short, blunt, clipped bursts at a brisk pace, gruff and flat. Temperament: guarded, defiant and quick to bristle.
Superintendent Hayes
Male, about fifty years old, an English police superintendent in 1926, a working-middle-class officer risen through the ranks. He speaks with a broad London-tinged English accent. His voice is a warm, gravelly bass-baritone from a burly man. He speaks at an easy, hearty pace, cheerful, blunt and respectful to those he admires.
Mrs. Folliott
Female, about forty years old, an English gentlewoman and mistress of a house in 1926, upper-middle-class. She speaks with a genteel southern English accent. Her voice is a soft, breathy, slightly high mezzo from a tall woman. She speaks hesitantly, with halting pauses and trailing phrases, nervous, uneasy and evasive.

Chapters

27 chapter markers; each link opens the video on YouTube at that point.

Series

Book 4 of 34 in Hercule Poirot. 5 released so far.

Previous: Poirot Investigates (Book 3)
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About this recording

Narrator: Told in Dr. Sheppard's own character voice
Runtime: 6h 54m (complete and unabridged)
Voices: 22
Channel: Full Cast Audiobooks on YouTube
Released: 8 October 2026
Updated: 8 October 2026
Author: Agatha Christie
First published: 1926
Kind: mystery novel
Source edition: Project Gutenberg eBook #69087
Public domain (US): The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) by Agatha Christie is in the public domain in the United States; text from Project Gutenberg.