The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (c. 1926)
Theme: English village murder
Side-read: Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers (March, 2021)
*The Key by Patricia Wentworth (April, 2021)
This month's run-off poll ended in a tie.
Non-winners:
*Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh
*Lake District Murder by John Bude
*Hand in Glove by Ngaio Marsh
*The Floating Admiral by the Detection Club
*Cover Her Face by P.D. James
*Fallen Into the Pit by Ellis Peters
Side read: no audio version so I'm not reading it; really disappointed because everyone has been so positive about the book
In lieu of the side read: Who Killed Roger Ackroyd by Pierre Bayard. https://peregrinationsbooksand.blogspot.com/2021/03/who-killed-roger-ackroyd.html
Other links of interest:
Pierre Bayard reference this list of rules for writing detective stories: http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv288.html
The Detection Club Rules: https://murder-mayhem.com/the-detection-club-rules
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