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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Dr. James Sheppard returns from a distress call at King’s Paddock, Mrs. Ferrars's residence, highly unsettled. He determines that Mrs. Ferrars died in the early hours of September 17 due to an overdose of a sedative named veronal. His sister, Caroline, already informed about the death from the milkman, who got the news from Mrs. Ferrars’s domestic help, Annie, suspects that Mrs. Ferrars took her own life out of guilt for poisoning her husband, Ashley Ferrars, a year before. Dr. Sheppard attempts
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Dr. James Sheppard returns from a distress call at King’s Paddock, Mrs. Ferrars's residence, highly unsettled. He determines that Mrs. Ferrars died in the early hours of September 17 due to an overdose of a sedative named veronal. His sister, Caroline, already informed about the death from the milkman, who got the news from Mrs. Ferrars’s domestic help, Annie, suspects that Mrs. Ferrars took her own life out of guilt for poisoning her husband, Ashley Ferrars, a year before. Dr. Sheppard attempts
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