Mrs. Ferrars

Mrs. Ferrars was a recently widowed woman whose husband, Ashley Ferrars, had died just over a year prior. She was a very attractive woman, not in her first youth, and known for her well-fitting clothes. She died of a Veronal overdose on the night of September 16th-17th, having taken the drug lately for severe sleeplessness that had left her looking hag-ridden for the prior six months.

Mrs. Ferrars was the attractive widow of Ashley Ferrars, who had died just over a year before her own death from a Veronal overdose. In the months before her suicide, she confessed to her friend Roger Ackroyd that she had poisoned her husband and was being blackmailed for it, a secret she detailed in a final letter to him.

Mrs. Ferrars was the attractive widow of Ashley Ferrars, whom she hated and later confessed to poisoning. In the months before her suicide by Veronal overdose, she was blackmailed for huge sums over the murder, paying out at least twenty thousand pounds, and had developed a growing love for Roger Ackroyd.