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This was my first full-length Agatha Christie book. I read The Golden Ball and Other Stories back in high school and enjoyed it, so I was kind of looking forward to reading this book. Plus, it was my first meeting with the acclaimed Hercule Poirot.
I have to say, this book kept me guessing up until the murderer was revealed to the reader. A few pages before then, M. Poirot gathers all the suspects together and says that he knows whodunnit, and that the murderer better come forward before the mor ...more
I have to say, this book kept me guessing up until the murderer was revealed to the reader. A few pages before then, M. Poirot gathers all the suspects together and says that he knows whodunnit, and that the murderer better come forward before the mor ...more
So good! Written in a way that you won’t figure it out. It’s very good!
"Me? I know everything. Remember that. ... You call it 'guessing,' I call it 'knowing,' my friend.
This was excellent, it was so surprisingly funny! And while I was spoiled a little bit for the plot (hard to avoid, with a book that has been around for so long), and so I had many correct suspicions, I did not know for sure who murdered Roger Ackroyd, and I did not figure it out until "the little Belgian" Hercule Poirot explained all.
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