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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Agatha Christie

Start date: August 15, 2016

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Mar 27, 2020 M rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, read-in-2020

One of my favourite Agatha Christie's so far, along with And Then There Were None.

Poirot at his best - a clear-cut locked room mystery that becomes more and more complex as the story progresses. Roger Ackroyd was alone in his office after a big dinner when he was stabbed in the neck and killed. Why? He was about to discover the blackmailer of his recently-deceased lover, who had been pushed to commit suicide by the guilt of her secret.

In this case, the narrator is not Hastings, but a small vill ...more

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Jun 17, 2017 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: detective-mystery, mystery, unreliable-narrator, audio, 1001-books

"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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Jun 24, 2007 Martha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Even though I am a big Christie fan and this is one of her best loved books, I somehow hadn't read it until now. It is certainly what you would expect from Christie--murder in a small English town. However, this book also included an innovation to the detective novel genre (you'll have to read it to find out what it is). I've always loved Hercule Poirot and his "little grey cells" and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a fun, easy read. ...more

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