Happy Tuesday, y’all! This week, Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl has given us a cover freebie. Back in May, I shared a collection of my favorite covers for Murder on the Orient Express, which you can find here. It was so much fun looking at all of the covers that I decided to do it again with another Agatha Christie book. This week I’m sharing my favorite covers for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.
Initially released in the spring of 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is often considered the book that changed Christie’s career. With its ending, it certainly set the bar high for future mystery writers. You can find some of the story’s history here.
Let’s check out some of my favorite covers for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd!
English
Finnish
Japanese
Swedish
Castilian/Spanish
Vietnamese
Italian
Arabic
Thai
Indonesian
English
Danish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Czech
Polish
German
Bulgarian
French
Croatian
Greek
Lithuanian
Estonian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Galician
Turkish
Basque
Chinese
Sinhalese
Hungarian
Korean
Azerbaijani
Georgian
Mongolian
Serbian
English
I may have gone over ten, but when Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling and most translated authors of all time, it’s hard to narrow it down to just ten. What do you think of some of my favorite covers for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd? Which cover is your favorite?
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These are all so different! I quite like the Spanish one!
I think it’s the angles that I love about that cover.
What a great selection! The red Croatian cover has to be my favourite. The Arabic one is, um, intriguing 🙂
The Arabic covers I’ve seen for Christie’s books are quite interesting.
This is a really good idea! My favourite one is the last English one, but I also think the Arabic one is striking – so eye-catching! Looking at all of these makes me want to re-read my one copy which is different again – it’s one of my favourite Agatha Christie books.
I hope to re-read it again at some point. I remember being stumped with the ending, more than usual. But Christie set the expectation of mystery readers with this one.
And now that this story is in the public domain, I expect there will be even more!
Agreed!
I love the variety of all these covers even though they’re for the same book. I like the Swedish one!
I think the Thai cover best reflects the story, thanks for sharing your #TTT
Wow! It’s had a lot of good covers! 🙂
Wow, this must have taken you ages! What a great idea!
Honestly, once I started, it was rather quick to put together. By that, I mean it took me a couple of hours. But that was mostly spent struggling to pick one cover over another. LOL! Goodreads was a great source.
That Sinhalese cover is cool.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
I actually had to use Google to help me figure out where Sinhalese is spoken, as it’s not a language I’m familiar with.
What a huge variety!
It’s so fun to see all the different styles! I think the English one is actually my favourite though.
They’re both stunning for different reasons.
Somehow I never realized that there could be a different book cover for every country for a book!
It helps when a book is 100 years old. And I feel as though copyright rules were different once upon a time.
Great topic. So interesting to see the same book with so many different covers.
I love seeing how different countries have different, yet similar, covers.
This is amazing! I love that you went with one book, and I love that there are so many different covers for just this one book. Such a great idea!
Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
Honestly, it helps that the book is 100 years old now. And so beloved by mystery fans the world over.
This is a brilliant idea! I wish I had done it for one of my favorite Heyers! Not sure I could align them all as well as you did, however.
Such a fun topic. Here is my post https://paigesofnovels.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/top-ten-tuesday-ten-books-from-ten-favorite-authors/.
Oh, this is such a fun take! I think I’ll have to save it for a rogue day 👀 I love that all the covers are so different with only one or two elements (the knife and the phone) appearing in most. Great choice!
I love how different countries/cultures/publishers interpret the stories for the cover. I mean the knife and phone are critical parts, so it makes sense they’re used a lot in the cover art.
It’s always fun to look at the various variations of covers, especially for a prolific author like Agatha Christie; I love the last one you shared. 🙂 Haven’t read this novel but I did binge the Poirot series last year and really enjoyed. 🙂 Thanks for visiting my list today.
This is such a fun topic! I remember you doing the other one, such a unique idea. Maybe one day Jana will assign this topic 😉
Nice work! I didn’t get a post done this week.
How fun!! I love Agatha Christie!!
So many great covers! I think my favorite’s the Serbian one.
There used to be a meme called Friday Face Off where you would compare covers just like this! I was one of my favorite posts to make! I like the Chinese cover best!
So many different styles!
Great idea for a list! I used to read Agatha Christie years ago, I need to re-visit some of her books. The Thai and the Portuguese versions are my favorites here.
I love the Finnish & Japanese covers
So many of the Japanese ones I’ve seen feel like manga. This one feels so dramatic.
Wow, fun choice of topic!
Isn’t amazing that every country has a different cover. I like the first one the best. Probably because that’s the one I think of.
Ah this was such a cool idea! You blew mine out of the park lol.
It is crazy how each country had their own spin and vibe of the same book.
Amazing!
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It’s so interesting and fun to see all these different covers! The first and last ones are my favorite.
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
Ohh, nice choice for a theme! It’s always interesting to see how different (or sometimes how similar) book covers can be across cultures.
I love the vintage look of all of these so much.
What a great post, and one of my favourites books of all time. I wonder if the French one shows too much.