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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha Christie · 2006 · 286 pages
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose.
But the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information. Unfortunately, before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death.
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Rian Johnson
“@AdamLanceGarcia I think And Then There Were None is her best book, but The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd and Curtain are probably tied for my personal favorite.”↗
Tana French
“Poirot has retired to the countryside to grow marrows, but he’s missing the thrill of the chase and his faithful Hastings. When he’s presented with a local murder, and a neighboring doctor who’s dying for the chance to be the famous detective’s new sidekick, he can’t resist. Unless I’m missing something huge, this is the book that pioneered the concept of the unreliable narrator in mystery. That change put the entire structure of the genre up for grabs.”↗
Lucy Foley
“My murder mysteries owe a huge debt to Agatha Christie’s writing: it’s safe to say I’m a mega-fan! I first read her books as a child and enjoyed them for the pure puzzle, trying to guess the solution. Later, I came to realize quite how dark they really are: not at all the cosy crime they’re sometimes made out to be. Her murderers are husbands and wives, neighbors, doctors, shopkeepers: Christie looks at what makes ordinary people kill one another — and to me that’s a far more terrifying premise than the crazed axe-murderer. I particularly love this book simply because it’s so clever, the sort of read that makes you actually chuckle with surprised pleasure when you read the solution, because it was there all along but so well-hidden in plain sight. It’s also equally enjoyable a read when you know the solution and read through, as I have done, trying to work out how Christie does it.”↗