Thursday, March 4, 2021

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

 

By Agatha Christie (read by Hugh Fraser) published 1926
An "Agatha Christie Centenary Celebration" Read
 
 
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd  By  cover art


SPOILER ALERT • SPOILER ALERT • SPOILER ALERT
If you don't want to know whodunit, stop reading right now.
 
 
 
WOW!!  What happened? There is such a quantum leap from her last book to this one. The Queen of Crime has finally arrived.

Now I understand why everyone has been waiting for this book to have its turn in our readathon. She has finally found her voice and, at the same time, written a detective story that turns the genre on end a bit. Who on earth would expect the village doctor to be the bad guy? Not only was he the narrator of the story but doctors are supposed to be  good people not murderers.  I am enjoying it so much, that I immediately started it again, just so that I could listen more carefully to the voice of the narrator. Is he a reliable narrator? Maybe, maybe not.

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