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by: Agatha Christie
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781579126278
ISBN: 1579126278
Label: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 01, 2006
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Sales Rank: 64842
Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Considered to be one of Agatha Christie’s most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules of traditional mystery writing. A widow’s suicide has stirred rumors of blackmail, and of a secret lover named Roger Ackroyd, who was found stabbed to death in his study. The case is so unconventional that not even crack detective Hercule Poirot has a clue as to how to solve it.
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Rating:  - eh
To tell the truth I was excited to read this one because I had heard of it a million times and it's one of the classics. But when I read it, I didn't like it nearly as much as I had hoped. I guessed the ending very early on simply because people kept telling me how much of a surprise it was. It was ok but I think the most important part of any book is scenery, so for me this wasn't that great.
Rating: - Many a motive
This Agatha Christie novel is written from the family doctor perspective, who is called late one evening to examine the death of his friend, Roger Ackroyd. Christie keeps the reader guessing until the very end of the book, with many characters possessing the motive for murder. The plot is also made more difficult by narrowing the time of the murder down to 10 or 15 minutes. Various characters lack alibis for this quarter of an hour, and the famous Hercule Poirot must ferret the truth out with a grand ... Read More
Rating:  - Not her best, but still very good
Told from the point of view of a country doctor, James Sheppard, the novel opens when a certain Mrs. Ferrars dies. Not long afterwards, Roger Ackroyd is found murdered in his study. The local inspector immediately suspects the butler, Parker, and Ackroyd's stepson also becomes a murder suspect, as Hercule Poirot (who's conveniently retired to a house in the neighborhood) is called in to solve the crime.
Written in the great age of crime novels--the 1920s--The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a ... Read More
Rating:  - A Great Mystery
I'm still relatively new to the world of Agatha Christie as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is only the third book that Dame Agatha wrote that I have read. I've heard that she has been known to reuse plot devices and that sometimes, some of her stories can become repetitive, but if they are all written like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, I would be happy with that. This will easily top my list of favorite books.
I don't want to go into too much detail, as I'm always afraid that I'll let something ... Read More
Rating: - Her Most Famous Murder Mystery
The narrator, James Sheppard M.D., tells about the little village of King's Abbot. Widow Ferrars died in her sleep from an overdose of veronal, a drug to induce sleep. Her husband died a year earlier - gossip said he was poisoned. Roger Ackroyd, an immensely rich manufacturer had thoughts of marrying widow Ferrars (they would be richer). Ackroyd was a widower without a child (Chapter 2), and lived in a mansion with relatives and servants. There is a new arrival, a stranger named Hercule Poirot. Conversations ... Read More
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