“Fortunately words, ingeniously used, will serve to mask the ugliness of naked facts.” The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a prime example of what a great mystery novel should be: cunning and clever above all things.īelow is both my full written and video review of the book. It was a perfectly planned and expertly executed story that shows just how well the writer knew her genre, lulling the audience into comfortable confidence with characters and ideas that feel all too familiar only to shatter all possible expectation in the closing moments. This novel is worthy of its acclaim and is perhaps her greatest work. In 2013 a group of 600 professional writers in the Crime Writers’ Association voted it the best crime novel in history, though this is but one of the countless accolades attributed to the unparalleled Queen of Mystery. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a novel by the incomparable Dame Agatha Christie, is one of the greatest mystery novels ever written. “It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.” Book Review The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
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